154 IINN^US PROFESSOR AT UPSAI. 



LiNNAUs now became its second creator. In a few years he raised 

 such a temple to Flora as had never before graced that northern traft. 

 With the gardens at Paris, Oxford, Kew, Leyden and Hartecamp, it be- 

 came at last, one of the most beautiful and most valuable in Europe. 

 All that had been formerly refused to advance the progress of botany, 

 was now granted out of respe6l to the great man who was the boast and 

 soul of that science. His zeal kindled fresh fervor in others. Count 

 Charles Gyllenborg was then Chancellor of the University, a 

 nobleman of great scientific acquirements and a special lover of botany. 

 He be^an to conceive and cherish a particular fondness of that science 

 on a journey which he made during the last century to Lapland, vv'ith 

 RuDBECK junior He considered the celebrity of the University of 

 Upsal as inseparable from his own fame. He saw in Linn^us a man 

 who could increase this celebrity, got acquainted with him at Stock- 

 holm, helped him to his professorsliip, and always remained his sin- 

 cerest and most zealous proteftor. On his account the Swedish govern- 

 ment resolved to spare no expences for the total improvement of the 

 botanical garden. Baron Charles Harlemann, the king's archi- 

 teft furnished the plan. The latter was also a professed friend of 

 LiNN^us, and by the intercession of several great men, it was further 

 resolved to build a dwelling-house for the professor of botany adjoin- 

 ing to the garden. Thus Linn^sus, having the family of nature so 

 near him, he could give them much better attendance, and study their 

 peculiarities, and communicate their knowledge to his pupils. The 

 execution of the proposed plan was begun in 1742, and completed in 

 the course of the following year. On the 18th of July, 1743, Lin- 

 NjEUS took possession of his new and beautiful premises. 



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