C *3 ] 
SECTION II. 
LINNALUS GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LUND.— DEPENDS ON THE SUPPORT OF 
PROFESSOR HUMERUS HIS RELATIVE, RESIDENT THERE.— THE LATTER IS BURIED 
ON HIS ARRIVAL. — LINN ALUS INSINUATES HIMSELF IN THE FAVOUR OF PRO- 
FESSOR STOBAiUS. — IS RECEIVED IN HIS FAMILY. COLLECTS AN HERBAL. IS 
IN DANGER OF LOSING HIS LIFE IN ONE OF HIS EXCURSIONS.-HIS UNCOM- 
MON m, ICFNCE-AN ANECDOTE-GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF UPSAL- 
MON DILIGENCE. A* »rr\m me quhfs with TTTF 
HIS TEACHERS. — HIS POVERTY-IS OBLIGED TO. “ “ceSS S -SS 
BARK OF TREES.— MAKES ACQUAINTANCE WITH OLAUS ^CELSIU S SO 
COUNT OF THIS LEARNED MAN.-IS RECEIVED INTO HIS HOUSE ;“ R *^ A 
WORK OF VAILLANT, THE FRENCH BOTANIST-FORMS THE ■“AOFCIlL ; A- 
ING A NEW SYSTEM OF BOTANY— GETS ACQUAINTED WITH OLAUS RUDBECk 
-BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION RESPECTING THE LATTER— LINNAEUS GOES 
TO LIVE WITH HIM. — READS LECTURES ON BOTANY FOR HIM. — LAYS THE 
FOUNDATION OF HIS NEW SYSTEM— FORMS CONNECTIONS WITH PETER AR- 
TEDI —RECIPROCAL EMULATION— HISTORY OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP— ROY AL 
SOCIETY OF SCIENCES AT UPSAL— LINNJEUS IS CHOSEN TO TRAVEL IN LAP- 
LAND. 
O F the two universities in the kingdom of Sweden, narrow- 
ness of family circumstances constrained Linn/eus to fix his choice 
on that of Lund, situate in the province of Schonen. A certain pro- 
fessor Humerus, was his relative there, and had promised to support 
him. Under such auspices Linnaeus set out for Lund in 1727, with 
the most pleasant prospefts before him. But these all at once vanished. 
He scarcely had arrived there, and prepared himself to wait on Hu- 
MiERU Sj when he was informed that the last duty had just been paid to 
the 
