LINN^US PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



LinNjEus to have a man, who, in his art, was one of the first in 

 Europe^ and to whom he stood indebted for many useful instruQions 

 respefting the cultivation and nursing of plants. His name was Der- 

 rick. Neitzel, a German, born at Havdburgh in 1703. He had ar- 

 ranged the principal gardens in Lower Saxony^ and was afterwards em- 

 ployed by Clxffort at Hartecamp. 



LiNN^us had thus obtained the finest repository that could be 

 wished for, but he only wanted the plants. His zeal, and the connexions 

 which he had with the greatest botanists in Europe, soon remedied this 

 defect, and rendered the garden one of the richest in Europe. In 

 1742 he introduced more than two hundred indigenous plants in it, and 

 sent a student to Norway to colled there the most valuable botanical 

 treasures. " Formerly," says Lin n ^us in a letter to Haller, " I had 

 *' plants but no money — and now, of what use is my money without 

 "plants*?" This proves witlv what enthusiastic fondness Linnaeus 

 loved plants. 



Soon, however, did his foreign friends gratify his wishes in a most 

 eager and satisfaftory manner. He received plants and seeds from 



hardly possessed any thing else, till I presented it with my colledlion of dried plants, 

 " inserts, birds, &c. &c." * 



* Prior hortus situs crat loco maxime dcprcsso et aedcs demissx loco paludoso. Ego igitur.a Rcgc 

 Clcmcntissimo petii, ut hortus arcis regije academiae donarelur proque horto botanico instrucrctur, quod 

 ft dudum faftum est. Aedes pro plantis servandis (Ora7?^f ? the hot-house, &cj. Audirorium, in quo 

 eugctur effgies Linnai, museum naturalium, asdcs professionis, &c. jam magna cx parte exstrufla sunt, 

 et post paucos annos omnino erunt paratse. Prior hortus adhuc quidem existlt, aedibus ( orangerU) 

 fere collapsis ; et novus hortus ita a me instrudtus est, ut plantatas fuerint plantar pcrenncs in areis tribus, 

 et annuse in unica, secundum systema Linn^anum ; pr^terca plantse Suecica, officinales pharmaeeuticie, 

 &c. in distinftis areis plantata; sunt, in usum mcdicorum et oeconomorum. Praster naturalia, spiritu 

 vini servata, museum academicum quidqiiam vix habuit, ante quam ego colleftioucm meam herbarum 

 siccatarum, inseftorum, avium, &c. &c. Academiae Upsaliensi donaveram. 



* Ante habui plantas, non peciinias ; nunc quid jiivant pecunias, ubi non plantaj ! Eplst. 

 ad Haller, vol. ii. page J47. 



Haller 



