THE LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINNiEUS. 
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tion of the rarest and most remarkable plants in the botanical garden of 
that University, — a work, which he continued afterwards*. His father had 
given him instructions how to complete this production, and it became 
the means of totally securing his subsequent fortune. On the 19th of 
March 1763, in the twenty-second year of his age, he was nominated 
adjunCl professor of botany, with the extraordinay promise, that after 
the death of his father, he should succeed him in all his academical 
functions; — a diftinCtion, a rapidity of preferment which excited in no 
small degree the envy of his young colleagues. In or'er to qualify 
himself in a proper manner, for the future e> woLe of all his d unities, 
he took his degree of DoCtor of Medicine in 17 65, under the presi- 
dency of Samuel Aurivilliu s. 
Young Linnaeus, as a public man, tvas now as happy as possible, 
but not so in the circle of his relations, where h "Ught to have expe- 
rienced the greatest pleasure. He began to give leCtmes j but r. Yigeru 
exertions for the benefit of the learned world, and the fondness tor 
his science, received a check, and degenerated into displeasure and 
splenetic disgust. 
The occasion of this disgust was as sad as the thing in itself was ex- 
traordinary, and an unnatural oddity. The son had the misfortune, in- 
stead of being the delight of his mother, to become the objeft of her 
hatred. Considering him as the only son — as a son, who distinguished 
himself so much, it appears to be a singular phenomeon, the more so, 
as her antipathy continued to last without the least abatement. The 
* Caroli Linn.EI, Filii, Decas Prima Plantamm Rariorum Horti Upsaliensis, sistens 
descriptiones et figuras plantarum minus cognitarum, Stock. 1761. fol. Decas Secunda, ibid. 
4763. Fasciculus primus Plantarum Rariorum Horti Upsaliensis > He discontinued the publi- 
cation of the Fasciculi. 
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