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LINNvEUS AT UPSAL. 
salary, as he had exercised his academical functions longer than the 
fixed term of thirty years*. Linnaeus put up for this vacancy, — and 
through the interest of Count Tessin, obtained the professorship of 
physic and anatomy in 1741, being then in the 34th year of his age. 
Though this office was not what he absolutely wished for, yet it put him 
in a better situation of exerting himself to obtain what he really wanted. 
Owing to his multifarious professional avocations, his young spouse 
went to live with her parents at Fahlun. It was thence he received the 
welcome tidings which rewarded his conjugal happiness. His lady pre- 
sented him with a young heir, on the 20th of January 1741, who was 
baptized after his own name, and remained the only male offspring that 
survived him. Having become a father, he now set off in September 
with his family to Upsal, the theatre of his fame and his constant residence. 
On the 17th of OCtober, he assumed his professorial funftions with a 
discourse, occasioned by his ldte peregrination. He expatiated on the 
use and necessity of domestic tours t. Pie displayed the wide range 
of objefts, which Sweden contained for the study of Physic, Natural 
History, Mineralogy, Zoology, Botany, and (Economy; and depicted, 
in living colours, the bounteous gifts of nature, with which, he said, we 
had nothing else to do, but to observe and convert them to our own use. 
Rosen had not been remiss in his endeavours to obtain an ordinary 
professorship, and to prefer the present certainty, to the incertainty of 
the future. He was to teach botany, and Linnaus anatomy. Such 
* There is a fund for two professors at Upsal, who have done the duty of their office for 
thirty years. The widows of professors rece ve a kind of pension paid them in corn. 
* Oratio de peregrinationum intra prtriam necessitate. See Amaenitat. Academic. Edit. 
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