2 5 
A STUDENT AT UPSAL. 
make botany his principal study ; but it was decreed that he should like- 
wise establish a better order in the other reigns of Nature, especially 
among the different classes of the animal reign. The new plan of a bo- 
tanical reform, and the theory of the sexes of the plants, consequently 
remained the obje£l of the thoughts and enquiries of Linnaeus. He 
became acquainted with the difficulties and infinite trouble that would 
attend the introduction of a new order ; but the charms of invention, the 
prospects of honour and fame, doubled his zeal, and rendered pleasant 
his labours. He began to build the foundation of his system, and 
wrote several treatises on the classes and genera of the plants, which 
afterwards were published in Holland, and served to disseminate his 
system of reform. 
LinnjEus, during his abode at Upsal , had the good fortune to meet 
with a young friend, to whose zeal and rivalship he owed a great deal. 
This was Peter Artedi, equally conspicuous for his eminence in a 
certain branch of natural history, and his unhappy fate. He was born in 
the year 1705 in Angermania, likewise of poor parents, and behaved 
at the college of Hernasand in the same manner as Linnaus did at 
Wexicoe, preferring the study of nature, especially that of fishes, to all 
other accomplishments. In 1724 he came to Upsal , to study divinity, 
but he soon exchanged this science for natural history. Linnaeus 
himself describes the history of this friendship with those sentiments 
of liveliness and cordiality which fully evince its value. “ In the 
44 year 1728,” says LinnjEUs, <e I came to Upsal. I asked what student 
64 was most eminent for his knowledge in natural history. The name of 
“ Artedi was heard every where; he had studied there several years 
“before me. I felt the most ardent desire to see him. On paying him 
E a visit 
