ANECDOTES OF LINN^US. 
All authentic particulars, which can contribute to 
a stricter knowledge of the life, character, and pe- 
culiarities of a man who has rendered himself as 
eminent and as immortal as Linnseus, cannot fail to 
prove agreeable and interesting. We shall therefore 
subjoin here those anecdotes which Professor Fabri- 
cius of Kiel, one of bis most celebrated pupils, has 
collected respecting him. 
“ For two whole years,” relates Fabricius, namely 
from 1762 till 1764, “ have I been so fortunate as 
to enjoy his instruction, his guidance and his con- 
fidential friendship. Not a day elapsed, on which 
I did not see him, on which I was not either pre- 
sent at his lectures, or as it frequently happened, 
spent several hours with him in familiar conversa- 
tion. In summer we followed him into the country. 
We were three, Ivhun, Zoega, and I, all foreigners. 
In winter we lived directly facing his house, and he 
came to us almost every day, in his short red robe 
de chambre, with a green fur cap on his head and a 
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