LINN/EUS PROFESSOPv AT UPSAL, 



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The greatness and celeiDrity of the direO-or of this garden required a 

 gardner of competent skill and abilities. It was not beneath the dignity of 



. LlNN£US 



*' rise to the most perfeft knowledge of the sciences. To attain this end we have examined 

 «' and viewed the constitutions of the University, to see ^^luch of them might require a change 

 " or an aheration. We found that it was necessary that the botanical garden, with its col- 

 " Icvfiions, should be removed to some more convenient spot, on account of its situation and 

 " extent. As long as the learned world acknowledged in this science the 



" SOLE LAWS OF A LlNN^EUS, HiS GREAT NAME AND HIS KNOWLEDGE SUFFICED FOR 



ALL. But, whereas, the discoveries are now augmented, and Foreigners illumined 



" BY HIS SCIENCE HAVE BEGUN TO RIVAL HIS COUNTRYMEN, HIS MEMORY, AND THE 

 HONOUR OF THE UNIVERSITY REQJJIRE SUCH PREPARATIONS WHICH MAY ENABLE 



" HIS SUCCESSORS TO PROPAGATE HIS FAME. We have for this reason resolved, not only 

 *' to defray the expence attending ihe establisment of a new botanical garden out of cur own 

 " private resources ; but also to add a grant of the ground of the pleasure-garden near the 

 *' castle ; besides 31,360 square yards of ground to the westw ard. We are, therefore, willing 

 to alienate the said pleasure- garden and ground from us and the crown, and we do by these 

 presents renounce every future claim and title thereto, presenting the same to our Academy 

 " of Upsal as an everlasting property and possession, on condition of its being used for the 

 <^ rearing and fostering of botanical objects. This shall serve as a due notice to every one. 

 " In corroboration whereof we have signed this present grant with our own hand, and sealed 

 " it with our royal seal. 



'« Done in the Castle of Upsal, «< Signed Gustavus, 



" August 16, 1787. 3 «' E. SCHROEDERBEUr."- 



Respecting the amelioration of the botanical garden at Upsal, the Chevalier de Thun- 

 BERG has favoured the author with the following account in a letter, dated Upsal, November 

 12, 1791. ■ 



«' The ancient academical garden was situate in a very low ground, and tlie dwelling of 

 *' the professor and the other buildings stood on a marshy soil. For this reason I infreated 

 <' the King, to grant the garden of the palace to the Academy of Upsal, and to have it 

 «< converted into a botanical garden, which was done accordmgly. The buildings for the pre- 

 " servation of the plants, 'the Orangerie, the hot-house, and the lefture room in which the 

 " bust of Linnaeus will be put, the museum, the professor's house, &c. &c. are mostly 

 «' finished, and will be quite complete in a few years hence. The old botanical garden is still 

 <' in being; but the buildings, especially the Orangerie, are almost a heap of ruins. In the 



new garden I have ordered the perennial plants to be arranged and planted in three beds, 

 «< and the annual ones in a field, according to the Linn^an system. The Swedish, the medi- 

 «' cinal and other plants for the use of the medical and oeconomical students, are contained in 

 «< separate beds. Besides tiie natural curiosities preserved in spirits of wine, the academy 



was 



