A STUDENT AT UPSAL. 
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at Upsal studied it better than himself. He composed, therefore, a 
small written treatise on the sexes of the plants, replete with new and cu- 
rious observations. Olaus Rudbeck, jun. then professor of botany, 
heard of this treatise. He was struck with the spirit of observation, 
and the solidity and novelty of the knowldege of our young author, 
which advanced him farther in his academical career. 
The father of the new friend of Linnaeus' was O laus Rud- 
beck., who died at Upsal on the 12th of December 1702, as professor 
of botany. Sweden had long been without a man of such great eru- 
dition, and such bold and heterodox a spirit of enquiry as his. He 
was the first celebrated naturalist of his country, and became the foun- 
der of the botanical garden at Upsal. He travelled at the expence of 
Queen Christina, and collected a vast quantity of herbs and plants. 
He intended to publish these in twelve volumes with wood cuts, under 
the title of Campi Elysii; and bestowed for a considerable time the utmost 
pains and diligence on their description and publication ; but the great 
fire which broke out at Upsal in- the year 1702, destroyed this literary 
treasure, of which nothing remained but two folio volumes, which af- 
terwards became a great curiosity *. His grief at this loss accelerated 
his death in the same year. He was also author of the famous histori- 
cal work, intituled Atlantica , sive Manheim , vera Japheti poster orum sedes 
ac patria , consisting of four volumes in folio; a work equally rich in 
learning and singular paradoxes, in which Rudbeck attempts to prove 
* They were published at London in July 1789, by Dr. James Edward Smith, Proprietor 
of the Linniean Museum and Herbals, under the title oi— Reliquiae Rudseckiana:, sive 
camporum Elysiorum libri primi, qua supersunt, adjeftis nominibus Linn^anis— folio. 
that 
