LmNvEUS AT UPSAU m 



And in another letter, dated January 19, 1739, he mentioned again 

 what follows . 



«' My determination of giving up the garden still remains the same. 

 I shall only stay here a few years longer, and can leave it to none that 

 is worthier than yourself*." 



Had this letter come to hand a few days sooner (it had been sent with 

 the preacher of the German congregation at Stockholm)', Sweden would, 

 perhaps, have lost the man, who afterwards became its boast, and the 

 Hanoverian university would have enjoyed the distinguished honour of 

 possessing the two greatest academical professors of our age. Lin- 

 NiEUsdid not, however, receive the letter till the 12th of August 

 17395 when his circumstances had changed much for the better, whicht 

 induced him to deline the offer. 



The kindness of his friend, and the unforeseen chance of so fine a 

 prospeft abroad, could not but make a deep impression upon him, 

 Animated with the most lively sense of heartfelt gratitude, he returned 

 the following answer to Haller : — " A thousand times have I praised 

 " Hermann t in his grave. While Tourn efort was yet unprovided 

 *' for, he was so uncommonly generous as to offer him his own place, 

 ** and to seek another. Hermann came afterwards to Paris, and 

 ** TouRNEFORT in honour of him ordered the fountains to play in 

 « the royal garden. But how moderate was this gratitude towards the 



qoidem, si tune placuerit conditio, destinavi horti haeredem et qualiscunque honoris, et earn 

 sententiam coram eis locutus sum, in quorum manu sunt omnia. 



• De horto eadem mihi sententia est, ego quidera paucis annis his versabor, neque unquam 

 tradcre potero digniori. See Orbls Eruditi Judicium de C. Linn^i, M. D. Scriptls, page 9. 



t Hermann wasa Cenn»i, and professor of botany at Leyden, where he died in 1615. 



^' magnanimous 



