i64 LINNiEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 



" spoke with a conviftion and perspicuity which his deep penetrationv 

 " his clear notions and ardent zeal inspired him with. It was impossi*- 

 " ble to be near him without attention, without participating in his 

 " enthusiasm. He communicated to his pupils the greatest part of the 

 " ideas and materials of the thirty disputations which were held under 

 " him till the year 1750- They contained real treasures and elucida- 

 " tions of science." 



The new established academy of Stockholm owed partly its existence 

 to the zeal of Linn/eus, and found in him the most aftive promoter 

 of its flourishing and respeftable state. From the year 1739 to 175O 

 he caused twenty-five treatises to be inserted in its annals, relative 

 to several remarkable animals, plants, and other Swedish natural 

 curiosities. He was also a most aftive co-operator in the royal society 

 of Upsal, among all the learned corporate bodies, which first admitted 

 him a member, and made him its secretary for several years. During 

 the same period he enriched its transaftions with twelve theses or trea- 

 tises (AHa Erudita Upsaliensia). 



His reputation as the most eminent botanist was now decided. Of 

 the truth of this assertion he obtained a very flattering proof, which at 

 the same time furnished him with an opportuity of renovating the fame 

 of a German then in his grave. Mr. Augustus Guntmer at Coper.r 

 kagiUt had in his possession a most capital herbarium from the Eait lur 

 dies, consisting of five volumes. He had enquired of several botanists 

 after the coUcftor, but none could tell him who he was. He sent, 

 therefore, the whole to Linnaeus, to make use of it in the composition 

 of his System of Nature. The latter found' upon stricl examination, 

 that it was the herbal of Paui< Herrmann, professor of botany at 



