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which he delivered his leCtures*. He afterwards destined this country 
seat as a dowry for his consort, who came to inhabit it after his decease. 
He purchased at a subsequent period another villa of less extent called 
Soefja. 
The university of Upsal had the honour of having the late King of 
Sweden , then Prince Royal, for its Chancellor, from 1764 to 1771. 
This distinction it also enjoys at present in the heir of his throne. When 
Gustavus went to Upsal he never left that place without favouring its 
first genius with a long conversation or M r ith a visit, which his Majesty 
even frequently paid him at Hammarby . 
During the late King’s residence at Paris, Lours XV. congratulated 
him upon the celebrated man whom his country possessed, and gave 
orders to colleCt the seeds of the rarest plants in his celebrated gardens 
at Trianon , as a present for Linnaeus. When Gustavus returned 
he took upon him the reins of government, which had devolved to his 
care by the demise of his parent. The present of seeds made by 
Lours were punctually forwarded to Linnaeus. 
His Majesty, some time after his accession to the throne, came again 
to Upsal. After a period of upwards of thirty years academical ser- 
vices, Linnaeus then intreated him, graciously to be pleased to accept 
of his resignation. 
But it was in vain for our luminary to represent, that the infirmities 
incident to old age incapacitated him from being farther useful to the 
university ; his plea was rejected by the flattering objection, that Upsal 
* He delivered those leitures to his foreign pupils who came in the summer from the vil- 
lages to his museum, not in the grave and solemn habit of a professor, but as a friendly com- 
panion, frequently wearing his robe de chambre, slippers, a red fur cap, &c. &c. 
ought 
