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SECTION IX, 



REMARKABLE EVENTS OF THE LIFE OF LINNAUS. 



ilNN^US DESCRIBES THE NATURAL CABINET OF COUNT TESSIN. — ULRICA 

 LOUISA, QUEEN OF SWEDEN.— HER EXTRAORDINARY LOVE OF NATURE.— 

 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ROYAL CABINETS OF NATURAL HISTORY AT UL- 

 RICHDALE AND DROTTNINGHOLM.— LINN^US ARRANGES AND DESCRIBES 

 THEM.— IS ATTACKED WITH THE GOUT.— CURES THIS DISORDER WITH STRAW- 

 BERRIES.— HIS OBSERVATIONS ON THE T^NIA.— LINN^US DISCOVERS THE 

 ART OF MAKING PEARLS. -BOTANICO-PHYSIOLOGICAL ELUCIDATIONS AND 

 OBSERVATIONS RESPECTING THE SLEEP OF PLANTS.— ANECDOTE.— OTHER OB- 

 SERVATIONS AND HYPOTHESES.— COLLECTION OF HIS ACCADEMICAL DISSER- 

 TATIONS (AMGENITATES ACADEMIC^).— SOME ACCOUNT RESPECTING THEM.— 

 THE NUMBER OF DISSERTATIONS OVER WHICH LINN^US PRESIDED.— HE PUB- 

 LISHES HIS PHILOSOPHIABOTANICA AND HIS SPECIES PLANTARUM.— ACCOUNT 

 OF THESE WORKS. — INTRODUCTION OF TRIVIAL NAMES. — BOTANY IS FACI- 

 LITATED.— THE MARGRAVINE CAROLINA LOUISA OF BADEN, A PECULIAR 

 LOVER OF NATURE AND A PROTECTRIX OF LINN^US.— OTHER FRIENDS OF 

 LINN^US AMONG THE FAIR SEX IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND AMERICA.— 

 NATURAL CURIOSITIES SENT TO HIM FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.— 

 FARTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDEN AT UPSAL.— 

 DONATI.— ANECDOTES.— LINNiEUS RECEIVES THE FIRST GREEN TEA-SHRUB 

 FROM CHINA.— SLIGHTS THE OFFERS MADE TO HIM FROM MADRID AND 

 PETERSBURGH.— IS THE FIRST OF THE SWEDISH LITERATI WHO IS CREATED 

 KNIGHT OF THE POLAR STAR.— COUNT HOEPKEN'S PANEGYRIC ON LINN^US,— 

 HE RECEIVES A PRIZE OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT STOCKHOLM, AND 

 ANOTHER OF THAT AT PETERSBURGH. 



We now return to those remarkable occurrences peculiarly inci- 

 dent to the academical life of Linn^us, which, for the sake of a 

 moi-e comprehensive view, we shall present in a period of ten yearsj 

 namely, from 1750 to 1760. His disciples became the priests and 



teachers 



