152 LINNtEUS AT UPSAL. 



salary, as he had exercised his academical functions longer than the 

 fixed term of thirty years*. Linn.eus put up for this vacancy, — and 

 through the interest of Count T ess in, obtained the professorship of 

 physic and anatomy in .1741, being then in the 34th year of his age. 

 Though this office was not what he absolutely wished for, yet it put him 

 in abetter situation of exerting himself to obtain what he really wanted. 

 Owing to his multifarious professional avocations, his young spouse 

 went to live with her parents at Fahlun. It was thence he received the 

 welcome tidings which rewarded his conjugal happiness. His lady pre- 

 sented him with a young heir, on the 20th of January 1741, who was 

 baptized after his own name, and remained the only male offspring that 

 survived him. Having become a father, he now set off in September 

 with his family to Upsal, the theatre of his fame and his constant residence. 



On the 17 th of Oftober, he assumed his professorial fun£lions with a 

 discourse, occasioned by his late peregrination. He expatiated on the 

 use and necessity of domestic tours t. He displayed the wide range 

 of objefts, which Sweden contained for the study of Physic, Natural 

 History, Mineralogy, Zoology, Botany, and CEconomy; and depifted, 

 in living colours, the bounteous gifts of nature, with which, he said, we 

 had nothing else to do, but to observe and convert them to our own use. 



Rosen had not been remiss in his endeavours to obtain an ordinary 

 professorship, and to prefer the present certainty, to the incertainty of 

 the future. He was to teach botany, and Linnaeus anatomy. Such 



* There is a fund for two professors at Upsal, who have done the duty of their office for 

 thirty years. The widows of professors receive a kind of pension paid them in corn. 



• Oratio de peregrinationum intra prtriam necessitate. See Amoenitat. Academic. Edit. 

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