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LINNAEUS AT UPSAL 
quite so well pleased with his situation as might have been expected. 
He was, upon the whole, fonder of meddling with plants than with 
patients. His love of Flora was still prevalent, notwithstanding the bad 
return which that goddess made him when he first became her votary- 
in Sweden. The garlands of fame which she had made for him, leaving 
him to expefl; others more beautiful, still possessed too many attractions. 
In 1740, he published a new edition of his Fundamenta Botanica, and 
dedicated that work to Dillenius, Haller, Van Royen, Gronov, 
Jussieu, Burmann, and Ammann professor of botany at St. Peters- 
burgh. We mention this trifling circumstance, because it shows the 
scale of gradation of the merits of the most eminent botanists of that 
time, and their rank in the esteem of Linn «us. 
His wishes had long been directed towards that university of his 
country where he had laid the foundation of his greatness, and suffered 
sq many vicissitudes in the smiles and frowns of fortune. On the 3d 
of June 1740, his former protestor, Olaus Rudbick junior, de- 
parted life in that city, by which demise the professorship of botany 
became vacant. It was this office which Linnaeus desired in prefer- 
ence to all others. He offered himself a candidate, made interest, but 
was disappointed. The laws of equity, and the university statutes op- 
posed hi^success. Nicholas Rosen, his former antagonist attained 
this academical charge, as he had taken his degrees before Linnaeus, 
and rendered himself more meritorious at Upsal, by a longer residence 
and aCtive service. 
Meanwhile LinnvEus did not want for protection. The diet 
which assembled in the beginning of the year 1741, extended 
also their deliberations, to a mode of lessening the foreign pro- 
ductions 
