i6o LINN^US PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



The usual number of students was 500, which proportion continued 

 also after his death. But during the septennial war in 1759, while Lin- 

 naeus was reftor for six months*, the number of students amounted 

 to one thousand Jive hundred. To profit by his knowlege pupils came 

 from Russia, Norway, Denmark, Great Britain, Hrlland, Gerviany^ 

 Switzerland, nay, even from America t. Thus he deserved well of 

 foreigners, and became the benefa£tor of the muses at Upsal. He 

 made summer excursions at the head of his pupils, who frequently at- 

 tended him to the number of upwards of two hundred. They then 

 went in small parties to explore different districts of the country. 

 Whenever some rare or remarkable plant, or some other natural curio- 

 sity was discovered, a signal was given with a horn or trumpet, upon 

 which the whole corps joined their chief, to hear his demonstrations 

 and remarks j;. What swelled his audience was a fine regulation made 

 in his time at Upsal, in consequence of which all the young students of 

 divinity and country reQors were obliged to learn the elements of bo- 

 tany and domestic medicine, that they might be able to a£t as physicians 

 in remote distritls where regular medical assistance could not speedily 

 enough be procured. 



It was through Linn^us that Upsal obtained its celebrated botanical 

 garden and a public cabinet of natural curiosities. The patriotism of 



* Reflor and pro reflor are two different offices at Upsal. The reftor is personally at the 

 head of the acadeinical government, and the pro-re£lur is his immediate predecessor in office, 

 who, in case of necessity, admpiisters his fiinftions ad interim. 



t Nec majori unquam morum sanftitate conspicuus fuit coetiis mille et qningentorum stu- 

 diosoriim hoc frequentantium Athenasum. See Ainoeuitat. Acad. vol. x. Erlang. 1790. 



t Herbat ones Upsalienses, in Amaenitat. Acad, vol. iii. Also Travels into Pc/t?;;f/, Russia^ 

 .^'-doeden and Denmark, by V'/. Cox, A. M, 



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