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"which he delivered his leftures*. He afterwards destined this country 

 seat as a dowry for his consort, who came to inhabit it after his decease. 

 He purchased at a subsequent period another villa of less extent called 

 Soefja. 



The university of Upsal had the honour of having the late King of 

 Sweden, then Prince Royal, for its Chancellor, from 1764 to 1771. 

 This distinftion it also enjoys at present in the heir of his throne. When 

 GusTAvus went to Upsalhe. never left that place without favouring its 

 first genius with a long conversation or with a visit, which his Majesty 

 even frequently paid him at Hammarby. 



During the late King's residence at Paris, Louis XV. congratulated 

 him upon the celebrated man whom his country possessed, and gave 

 orders to collefl the seeds of the rarest plants in' his celebrated gardens 

 at Trianon, as a present for Linnaeus. When Gustavus returned 

 he took upon him the reins of government, which had devolved to his 

 care by the demise of his parent. The present of seeds made by 

 Louis were punftually forwarded to Linnaus. 



His Majesty, some time after liis accession to the throne, came again 

 to Upsal. After a period of upwards of thirty years academical ser- 

 vices, LiNNiEus then intreated him, graciously to be pleased to accept 

 of his resignation. ■■bi/nh- ; 



But it was in vain for our luminary to represent, that the infirmities 

 incident to old age incapacitated him from being farther useful to the 

 university ; his plea was rejefled by the flattering objeftion, that Upsal 



♦ He delivered those ledures to his foreign pupils who came in the summer from the vil- 

 lages to his museum, not in the grave and solemn habit of a professor, but as a friendly com- 

 panion, frequently wearing his robe de chambre, slippers, a red fur cap, &c. &c. 



ought 



