LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
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Haller and Gleditsch at Berlin , Ludwig at Ltipzic , Dr. Moehren 
at Yevern , Gesner at Stutgarth , Jussieu at Paris, Professor De 
Sauvages at Montpellier, Dillenius at Oxford, Collinson, Mil- 
ler and Catesby at London , Van Royen and Gronov at Leyden , 
Burmann at Amsterdam, Gmelin and Ammann at Petersburgh, and 
afterwards from many others. The embellishing and enriching of the 
botanical garden at Upsal, was the favourite study of his life. His 
anxious and tender care triumphed over the rigour and inclemency 
of the frigid climate of Sweden. The plants which grow even in the 
most southern country were now cultivated in the garden at Upsal , 
which presented treasures from every quarter of the globe *. 
Six years after the re-establishment of this garden, Lin n «us in 1748 
published its description. The number of the foreign species of plants 
amounted to one thousand one hundred. His genius diff used itself like 
the beams of the sun over the botanical world, and its beneficent influence 
gave warmth and animation, especially in Sweden. Besides him there 
was not a single eminent botanist in the whole kingdom. The leftures 
had hitherto been rather a matter of form than of instruction, and were 
not frequented. Linnaeus came, and entirely changed the face of 
affairs. His genius charmed and formed others. Flora was now 
more courted in Sweden than at any former period. Not only the 
votaries of tEsculapius, but the students of other sciences be- 
stowed now the utmost diligence and attention upon botany. The hall 
in which Linnaeus delivered his leftures overflowed with a croudcd 
audience. Through him the university of Upsal formed a new epoch, 
* Hortus Upsaliensis, exhibens plantas exoticas, Horto Upsaliensi academic®, a Carol, 
Linna;o illatas ab anno 1742, in annum 1748, &c. Holm. 174S, oftavo, 3: 6 , &c. 
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