FAMILY OF LINNiEUS. 259 



« tlie colleftions at the sum of two thousand ducats. But while he endea- 

 " voured to amuse me with his promises, he profited by the interval to 



convey them out of the kingdom. I was obhged to apply to the King, to 

 " obtain an order for stopping them, but I applied too late. This circum- 

 " stance obliged me to reside at Stockholm for some months*." 



Those who wish for the best and most authentic information, not only 

 about the remarkable circumstances which attended the sale of the Lin- 

 NyEAN cohesions, but also respefting their contents and quality, will 

 find it among the supplements to this biography, in an ample letter from 

 Dr. J. E. Smith to the author. 



LiNNiEus was the father of six children, two sons and four 

 daughters. Of the eldest sen, Charles Linnaeus, who succeeded 

 his father in his professorship, we shall give a particular account in the 

 course of this work. The youngest,, whose name was John, died 

 while an infant, Elisabeth Christina, the eldest Miss LinNjEus, 

 married in 1761 one Bergencrantz, a captain of cavalry in the 

 service of Sweden^ and has been dead these many years. The fruit of 

 her marriage was a daughter, born in 1764. The three other daugh- 

 ters of Linn^us are the only surviving branches of that great man's 

 family. Misses Louisa and Sarah Christina, the two eldest, re- 

 main in a state of celibacy with their mother at the villa of Ham- 

 marby^ one league from Upsal. And Miss Sophia, her youngest, has 



* " Jag hadde accorderat mede , som disponerade ora Linneernas egendom, om 



"eras Samlingar och Biblotheqiie, mot en siimma stor aooo ducater; men under dat han 

 " uppeholt mig met loften, behagade han, lurendrega dem iir Riket. Jag var nosakad, at 

 " vanda mig till Konunger, och begiira sequester mcH kom f©r sent. Da te har giort, at jag 

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