LINNiEUS professor at upsal. 
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university of Upsal , with a considerable collection of curious animals, 
fishes and inseCts; farther by Nicholas Grill, a merchant at Stock- 
holm, who bequeathed to the same university a valuable collection of 
natural treasures, the produce of North America ; especially some rare 
serpents which had been collected at Surinam. These presents were fit 
course of time considerably increased by the Chinese curiosities of 
Lagerstroem at Gottenburgh, and by several other gifts. To do 
honour to the donors, and to enlarge the knowledge of natural history, 
Linn,eus described these sundry collections*. In a short space of 
time the number of presents became so very great, as to induce the 
Swedish government, upon some representations made by Linnaeus, 
to order a separate building to be raised in the year 17485 for the pur- 
pose of preserving them. 
Linnaeus now divided his diligence into the occupations for his 
pupils, for his country, and for the learned world at large. We will 
compress the sphere of his exploits to the year 1750, to see what he did 
to advance the above mentioned purposes. 
He was not, nor did he wish to be such an universalist as Haller ; 
and nature remained his sole study. His application was entirely be- 
stowed upon her productions. He gave leCtures on botany, natural 
history, the medicinal virtues of plants, the Materia Medica , and on the 
diaetetic and knowledge of diseases. His delivery was a pattern for a 
professor in point of energy, instruction and entertainment. ct Science,’ 
said B/Eck, « streamed with peculiar pleasantness from his lips. He 
* Amphibia Gyllenborgiana, Jul. 18, 1745. Museum Adolpho-Fredericanum, 
May 31, 1746. Surinamensia, Grilliana, Jul. 18, 1748. Chinensia, Lagerstroemiana, 
1754.— See Amamitates Academic e. Vol. i. ii. iv. 
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