A STUDENT AT UPSAL. 23 



at Upidl studied it better than himself. He composed, therefore, a 

 small written treatise on the sexes of the plants, replete with new and cu- 

 rious observations. Olaus Rudbeck, jun. then professor of botany, 

 heard of this treatise. He was struck with the spirit of observation, 

 and the solidity and novelty of the knowldege of our young author, 

 which advanced him farther in his academical career. 



The father of the new friend of Linnaeus was Olaus Rud- 

 beck, who died at Upsal on the 12th of December 1702, as professor 

 of botany. Sweden had long been without a man of such great eru- 

 dition, and such bold and heterodox a spirit of enquiry as his. He 

 was the first celebrated naturalist of his country, and became the foun- 

 der of the botanical garden at Upsal. He travelled at the expence of 

 Queen Christina, and collefted a vast quantity of herbs and plants. 

 He intended to publish these in twelve volumes with wood cuts, under 

 the title of Campi Elysii; and bestowed for a considerable time the utmost 

 pains and diligence on their description and publication ; but the great 

 fire which broke out at Upsal in the year 1702, destroyed this literary 

 treasure, of which nothing remained but two Jolio volumes, which af- 

 terwards became a great curiosity*. His grief at this loss accelerated 

 his death in the same year. He was also author of the famous histori- 

 cal work, intituled Atlantica, sive Manheim^ vera Japheti poster orum sedes 

 ac patria^ consisting of four volumes in folio ; a work equally I'ich in 

 learning and singular paradoxes, in which Rudbeck attempts to prove 



* They were published at London in July 1789, by Dr. James Edward Smith, Proprietor 

 of the LinnjEAN Museum and Herbals, under the title of— Rudbeckian^, f/o-r 

 camporum Elysiarum libri pr'tmi, qtice supersuntf adjeiiis nominibus LinNjEANIs — folio. 



that 



