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LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
Linn-eus now became its second creator. In a few years he raised 
such a temple to Flora as had never before graced that northern tracL 
With the gardens at Paris , Oxford , Kew, Leyden and Hartecamp, it be- 
came at last, one of the most beautiful and most valuable in Europe. 
All that had been formerly refused to advance the progress of botany, 
was now granted out of respcEt to the great man who was the boast and 
soul of that science. His zeal kindled fresh fervor in others. Count 
Charles Gyllenborg was then Chancellor of the University, a 
nobleman of great scientific acquirements and a special lover of botany. 
He began to conceive and cherish a particular fondness of that science 
on a journey which he made during the last century to Lapland , with 
Rudbeck junior He considered the celebrity of the University of 
Upsal as inseparable from his own fame. lie saw in Linnaeus a man 
who could increase this celebrity, got acquainted with him at Stock- 
holm- ) helped him to his professorship, and always remained his sin- 
cerest and most zealous protestor. On his account the Swedish govern- 
ment resolved to spare no expences for the total improvement of the 
botanical garden. Baron Charles Harlemann, the king’s archi- 
tect furnished the plan. The latter was also a professed friend of 
LinnjEUS, and by the intercession of several great men, it was further 
jesolved to build a dwelling-house for the professor of botany adjoin- 
ing to the garden. Thus Linn^us, having the family of nature so 
near him, he could give them much better attendance, and study their 
peculiarities, and communicate their knowledge to his pupils. The 
execution of the proposed plan was begun in 1742, and completed in 
the course of the following year. On the 18th of July, 1743: Lin- 
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njeus took possession of his new and beautiful premises. 
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