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thusiasm his f^ithers inclination. In remembrance of LinN/EUs, his 

 portrait, after life, and in a Laplander's dress, is still preserved there. 

 From the original, drawn at Cl if fort's, several copies were exe- 

 cuted. In these portraits Linn.eus had the most grotesque appear- 

 ance. It represented him with boots of rein-deer-skin, about his body a 

 girdle, from which was suspended a Laplander's di'um, a needle to make 

 nets, a straw snuff-box, a cartridge-box, and a knife; his neck was 

 bare ; his head was covered with a grey round hat ; his hair was of 

 a stiff brown colour; over his hands he wore Laplander's gloves; and 

 in his right he held a plant, red from within and white from without*. — 

 This portrait did not bear the least resemblance to Linnaeus in his 

 age and maturity of manhood, except the piercing hazel eyes, and the 

 wart on his right cheek. 



BoERHAAVE had thus far been the author of his good fortune in 

 Holland^ and resolved farther to become his promoter an-d benefaBor. 

 The charge of a physician in ordinary in the Dutch colony of Surinam^ 

 in South America, had become vacant. It was only in Boerhaave's 

 power to recommend a successor. He offered this place to Linn/Eus, 

 who, owing to a desire of propagating and enjoying his celebrity in 

 Europe, and deterred by the unpropitious climate of that colony, 

 thought proper to wave it. He proposed a friend of his, a German, of 

 the name of Bartsch. This was a youth of great parts, and a most 

 amiable charafter. Linnaeus had got acquainted with him at Leyden-^ 

 grew as fond of him as of Artedi, and instruttcd him farther in bo- 

 tany, of which he became a rare and most enthusiastic professor. 

 Bartsch gladly accepted the charge, and sailed in the summer of 1737 

 ♦ 7bis luas the flant calltd after his o'Vjn name, Linnxa Boiealu. 



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