LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
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The greatness and celebrity of the director of this garden requiieda 
gardner of competent skill and abilities. It was not beneath the dignity of 
LlNNiEUS 
<* rise to the most perfeft knowledge of the sciences. To attain this end we have examined 
« and viewed the constitutions of the University, to see which ot them might require a change 
“ or an alteration. We found that it was necessary that the botanical garden, with its col- 
“ leaions, should be removed to some more convenient spot, on account of its situation and 
t> extent. As long as the learned world acknowledged in this science the 
« s oLE LAWS OF A LlNNAEUS, HIS GREAT NAME AND HIS KNOWLEDGE SUFFICED FOR. 
all. But, whereas, the discoveries are now augmented, and Foreigners illumined 
“ BY HIS SCIENCE HAVE BEGUN TO RIVAL HIS COUNTRYMEN, HIS MEMORY, AND THE 
H HONOUR OF THE UNIVERSITY REQUIRE SUCH PREPARATIONS WHICH MAY ENABLE 
“ HIS SUCCESSORS TO propagate his fame. We have for tliis reason resolved, not only 
“ to defray the expence attending the establisment of a new botanical garden out of our own 
“ private resources ; but also to add a grant of the ground of the pleasure-garden near the 
“ castle ; besides 31,560 square yards of ground to the westward. We arc, therefore, willing 
“ to alienate the said pleasure-garden and ground from us and the crown, and we do by these 
“ presents renounce every future claim and title thereto, presenting the same to our Academy 
“ of Upsal as an everlasting property and possession, on condition of its being used for the 
“ rearing and fostering of botanical objects. This shall serve as a due notice to every one. 
(< j n corroboration whereof we have signed this present grant with our own hand, and sealed 
“ it with our royal seal. 
“ Done in the Castle of Upsal, “ Signed Gustavus, 
“ August 16, 1787. “ E- Schroederbeim.’* 
Respecting the amelioration of the botanical garden at Upsal, the Chevalier de Thun* 
berg has favoured the author with the following account in a letter, dated Upsal, November 
12, 1791- 
<« 'j'he ancient academical garden was situate in a very low ground, and the dwelling of 
“ the professor and the other buildings stood on a marshy soil. For this reason I mtreated 
“ the King, to grant the garden of the palace to the Academy of Upsal, and to have it 
“ converted into a botanical garden, which was done accordingly. The buildings for the pre- 
“ servation of the plants, the Orangerie, the hot-house, and the lecture room in which the 
“ bust of Linnajus will be put, the museum, the professor’s house, &c. &c. are mostly 
“ finished, and will be quite complete in a few years hence. The old botanical garden is still 
“ in bein' 1 ; but the buildings, especially the Orangerie, are almost a heap of ruins. In the 
“ new warden I have ordered the perennial plants to be arranged and planted in three beds, 
“ and the annual ones in a field, according to the Linn. ran system. The Swedish, the medi- 
1, cinal and other plants for the use of the medical and (economical students, are contained in 
« separate beds. Besides the natural curiosities preserved in spirits of wine, the academy 
« was 
