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profession. They grounded this judgment upon the little progress which 
young LiNNios had then made in Latin. His proficiency in this 
language was certainly far from being considerable ; and it so happened 
merely because he felt no inclination of learning it from those books, 
which were assigned to him for that purpose. No sooner, however, had 
Rothmann directed him to. read Pliny, than his progress became 
m t rapid ; because the contents of that author corresponded entirely 
wit! his own natural propensity. T -> this circumstance may be ascribed 
his predilection for Pliny, and likewise the laconism of his style. 
p 23% 
Gf the first volume of Ol. Rudbeck’s Campi Elysii, no more than 
three copies were preserved, one of which is at Oxford and two 
in Sweden. Several copies of the second volume were extricated from 
the flames j but they are become a rarity. Those of the wood-cuts of 
the first volume and some others which were saved, have since been 
reprinted by the care of Dr. J. E. Smith,. 
page 24. 
When LinNjEUs gave leClures for Ol. Rudbeck, he composed a 
catalogue of he plants which he saw in the Swedish gardens, especially 
in those of Upland.. This work is entituled : Cajroli Li-nnxsi, M. B. 
et Z. C. S R. Hortus Uplandicus , sive enurneratio stirpium, quae in 
variis hortis Uplandiae, imprimis aytem in horto botanico publico 
XJpsaliensi colu.ntur, nec non quae in agris ferunter; Methodo propria 
in classes distributa. Upsal, M.DCC.XXX. seventy-four pages in oc- 
tavo, besides a ol ■ of garden of the palace at Upsal , a pre- 
face in Swedish, a; , an inde#. This catalogue has never been 
printed^. 
