LINN.EUS AT STOCKHOLM. 
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ee sor of botany at Upsal, the title of dean or president of the college of 
cc physicians, the favour of two Kings, and recommended me by a medal 
<s to posterity*. 
The manner in which Count Tessin first avowed himself the pro- 
testor of Linnaeus deserves particular mention. Having made him- 
self known at Court by the cure of the cough, the Count, who was 
already acquainted with his distinguished rank in science, sent for him, 
and after a long conversation asked him, if he did not wish for some 
office, or if he would like to petition for any place, as the diet was then 
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assembled. « The charge of physician to the admiralty is now vacant," 
replied Linn.® us, <{ but it is destined, as I hear, for another. “ But 
« that other shall not have it,” replied the Count ; and a few weeks 
after, on the the 14th or 15th of May, Linn.eus received the diploma 
of physician to the Navy and botanist to the King. 
Having thus acquired a settled income, which was farther increased 
by his medical praHice, he hastened to obtain his bride. Old Mo- 
R £us was now very glad to give his consent without much intreaty, 
and the hymeneal bond was sealed on the 26th of June. 
The same year which favoured him with the smiles of fortune, 
* llle me, peregrinum in patria, reducem excepit ; 
Ille mihi stipendium ab ordinibus regni expetiit ; 
llle mihi spartam medici classis procuravit ; 
Ille mihi munus quo fungor conciliavit ; 
llle mihi titulum quo distinguor paravit ; 
Ille mead serenissimos Reges introduxit ; 
Ille me cusso numismate posteritati commendavit. 
it uie meas errare boves, ut cernis et ipsum 
« Ludere quae vellem calamo permisit agresti. 
See Systema Nature, edit. xii. Holm. 1766. 
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