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JOURNEY TO LAPLAND. 
academician, were the only rewards which Linnaeus obtained for his 
toils. Having surmounted so many dangers and difficulties, he hoped 
to find lepose and better fortune at Upsal ; but instead of these, fate 
overwhelmed him with fresh adversities. 
Ambitious to shine in the science which he professed, and endea- 
vouring to secure the means of decent support, he began in the year 
1733 to give le&ures on botany, chymistry and mineralogy. On the 
latter science he was the first at Upsal that ever gave regular leftures. 
Novelty of matter, the different view in which he represented botany, 
and the solidity and clearness of his dodrine, gained him uncommon 
approbation. 
This very distindion, so justly acquired, turned out to his pre- 
judice. Envy and rivalship, combined with self-interest, gave rise to 
all the violence of animosity. Linn.* us had not taken his degrees, 
which excluded him from the right of delivering public ledures. Had he 
been a genius of the second order, he might have expeded to meet with 
indulgence ; but as matters stood, he became too obnoxious to his com- 
petitors, who were determined to check his rising fame. A young man 
became at once the rival and accuser of Linnaus. His name was 
Dodor Nicholas Rosen. He had succeeded professor Rudbeck 
in his anatomical and physical office. The applause which Linnaeus 
received militated against Rosen s reputation. He informed against him 
before the senate of the university, and insisted that, in virtue of the 
academical statutes, Linnaeus be no longer suffered to give public 
ledures. He was summoned to appear before the senate ; several mem- 
bers were in his favour; but Rosen pleaded the inviolability of the 
f statutes, 
