LINNAEUS PROFESSOR AT UPSAL. 
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The usual number of students was 500, which proportion continued 
also after his death. But daring the septennial war in 1759, while Lin- 
K £us was reftor for six months*, the number of students amounted 
to one thousand Jive hundred. To profit by his knowlege pupils came 
from Russia , Norway , Denmark , Great Britain , Holland , Germany , 
Switzerland , nay, even from America t. Thus he deserved well of 
foreigners, and became the benefaftor of the muses at Upsal. He 
made summer excursions at the head of his pupils, who frequently at- 
tended him to the number of upwards of two hundred. They then 
went in small parties to explore different districts of the country. 
Whenever some rare or remarkable plant, or some other natural curio- 
sity was discovered, a signal was given with a horn or trumpet, upon 
which the whole corps joined their chief, to hear his demonstrations 
and remarks £. What swelled his audience was a fine regulation made 
in his time at Upsal , in consequence of which all the young students of 
divinity and country reftors were obliged to learn the elements of bo- 
tany and domestic medicine, that they might be able to aft as physicians 
in remote distrifts where regular medical assistance could not speedily 
enough be procured. 
It was through Linnteus that Upsal obtained its celebrated botanical 
garden and a public cabinet of natural curiosities. The patriotism of 
* Rector and pro rector are two different offices at Upsal. The reftor is personally at the 
head of the academical government, and the pro-rector is his immediate predecessor in office, 
who, in case of necessity, administers his functions ad interim. 
t Nec majori unquam mornm sanftitate conspicuus fuit coetus mille et quingentorum stu- 
diosorum hoc frequentantium Athenaeum. See Amoe>‘itat. Acad. vol. x. Erlang. 179°- 
t Herbat'ones Upsalienses, in Amcenitat. Acad. vol. iii. Also Travels into Poland , Russia , 
Sweden and Denmark , by W. Cox, A. M. 
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