OF THE LIFE OF LINN^US. 



sian empire, in the late war, were exchanged in 1790, and at li- 

 berty to return to their country through St. Petershcrgh, they met with 

 the greatest support and encouragement, especially on the part of De- 

 mi doff, who resided in that metropolis, and exerted himself by render- 

 ing every service to those unfortunate Swedish warriors, whose gallantry 

 he esteemed, and of whose country he still retained the most grateful 

 remembrance. 



The salary which Linn^us enjoyed, the property which he had ac- 

 quired by his marriage, and the presents which were sent him by 

 his pupils and admirers, made him one of the richest and most monied 

 among the professors and inhabitants of Upsal. His annual stipend 

 amounted to seven hundred platens or florins. To these may be added 

 one hundred tons of corn and about twenty tons more, which were the 

 produce of a prebendary estate ; making altogether an annual inconu. 

 of about five hundred Swedish rix dollars, sometimes more and some- 

 limes less, according to the price of the corn. During the latter part o\ 

 his life the late King allowed him a double salary *. To these resources 

 ought also to be joined the produce of his numerous writings, of which 

 Laurence Salvius, a man of merit at Stockholm^ was generally the, 

 editor, and by the care of the same person the first literary journal was 

 introduced in Sweden in 1745, under the title of Larda Tidningar. 



* The Chevalier Thunberg thus expresses himself in a letter to the author from Upsal : 

 " Professio Botanices quotannis LinnjEO hosce suppeditavit reditu s :. Frumenti lOO, ut vocant 

 *' tonnas, et argenti 700 (flatar) florenos, reditus villje didas Prabendehemman, circiter 

 20 tonnas frumenti, quod quidem censeri potest circiter 500 Rdal Suec. plus aut mintis, 

 " prout frumentiim quotannis majori vel minori pretio vendebatur : ultimis tamen anuis, ex 

 . '« augustissimi regis gratia, in duplo LinnjEus fruitusest hocce salario." 



"Reditus," says Professor Thunberg, in another letter to the author, Proftssioais 

 Botanices prsteraedcs publicas censentur circa 500 Imperiales Suec." 



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