ADVENTURES OF LINNAEUS. 43 
If Linnaeus had chosen to continue his leftures, he must have 
taken his degree of doctor ; but this was not in his powei foi want oi 
money. He had more than enough to do to support himself. Amidst 
these adverse circumstances, there was still one hope left for him. I he 
office of substitute professor of the university of Lund had become 
vacant. He took pains to obtain this charge, and Stob/eus and othet 
professors supported his claims; his efforts proved, however, fruitless, 
and another obtained that wished-for happiness. 
His situation now became as wretched as before, but his coutage 
and serenity continued the same. The consciousness of his eminence, 
the remembrance of the darker but still more pleasant prospects of fu- 
turity, the idea of his bold plan of reform which he still continued to 
work upon, and the hope of a future comfortable subsistence, animated 
his resolution and fortitude in combating adversity. 
These virtues allayed likewise the rigor of his fate. The former pupils 
of LiNNiEUS lamented his situation. Several of them resolved in the 
year 1733 to make excursions in the mountainous countries, and they 
put Linn^us at the head of the enterprize, which had for its ten- 
dency a farther knowledge of the mineral reign. This excuision ex 
tended to Garpenberg , Averstal, Bitzberg , and especially to Fahlun, 
Rosenstein, and chose his coat of arms. He gained 
Royal Family of Sweden, and recerved m * [ ( (he kingdom . His motto was, 
pox at court, a reward of 100,000 rix dollais, fromth - 
Without Thorns, “ Splnis’’- In his last illness he requested the medical ass, stance of 
LiNKiEUS. His country lost in him one of the greatest physicians. The academy of Stockholm 
'i ^ medal struck to his memory, with this inscription : Satculi decus indelibile nostri. He 
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