MEMOIR OF LINNiEUS. 
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commenced the foundation of several of his works, the 
Bibliotheca Botanica, Classes et Genera Plantarum. 
Thirty-six years before this time. Professor Rudbeck 
had been employed, by the command of Charles XI., 
to make the tour of Lapland, but the whole fruits of 
that expedition had been destroyed in the dreadful fire 
at Upsala in 1702. The Royal Academy again medi- 
tated the design of fitting out a second expedition, and 
the friends of Linmeus had sufficient interest to procure 
his appointment to the laborious undertaking of ex- 
ploring Lapland. They could not have entrusted it to 
any one better qualified ; and although agriculture and 
botany were the branches to which he was required 
principally to direct his attention, he omitted nothing 
which could improve his knowledge of the country, its 
productions, and inhabitants. 
On account of the season, the journey could not be 
commenced before the spring, and Linmeus did not set 
out till the 13th May 1732. He commenced the 
journey in high spirits, and in love with nature ; tra- 
velled on horseback, and carried his whole baggage on 
his back. It may be worth while to describe his dress 
and implements in his own words, from the narrative 
laid before the Academy of Sciences. “ My clothes 
consisted of a light coat of West-Gothland linsey- 
woolsey cloth, without folds, lined with red shalloon, 
having small cuffs and collar of shag ; leather breeches, 
a round wig, a green leather cap, and a pair of half 
boots. I carried a small leathern bag half an ell in 
length, but somewhat less in breadth, furnished on one 
