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17635 his son Charles Linnacs, then in the twenty-second year of 
his age, appointed assistant professor of botany, with the promise that 
he should once be his successor. 
Among the learned of his own country, he was a phenomenon of the 
first magnitude. What Ferney and Bern were on account of Vol- 
taire and Haller, the remote city of Upsal became in a similar pro- 
portion with regard to LiNNiEUS. No foreigner of quality or of any 
literary eminence passed though Upsal, without wishing to see him. 
Strangers of all denominations gave him the most flattering proofs of 
respefl:. Lord Baltimore, whose great fortune corresponded with 
his love of natural history, went from Stockholm to Upsal merely for 
the purpose of seeing Linn aus. He viewed the LinNjEAn collec- 
tions and after a few hours conversation with our luminary, conceived 
so high an esteem for him as to present him with a valuable gold snuff 
box set in diamonds. His Lordship’s liberality and munificence did 
not stop here. On his travels through Germany he sent Linnaeus a 
service of silver plate, or what the French call a necessaire, worth 2000 
rix dollars, or upwards of three hundred pounds sterling. Such an aft 
of munificence can only be the result of the generous sublimity of mind 
which so peculiarly characterises the inhabitants of the British isles. 
Linnaeus also received many proofs of the liberality and attach- 
ment of the richer class of his foreign pupils. Among the latter Messrs. 
Demedoros and Demidoffs, the sons of two most respectable and 
wealthy Russian families, signalized themselves in a peculiar manner. 
Owing to the universal love which Linnaeus had gained, he even be- 
came the benefaftor of his countrymen in our time. When the Swe- 
dish officers and soldiers, taken prisoners and dispersed over the Rus- 
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