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MEMOIR OF LINNAEUS. 
again to Hartechamp, where he slowly recovered 
and, though in a still weak state, set out for Sweden, 
taking his route by Paris, which he had long been 
anxious to behold. Introduced to the Jussieus, he 
received every attention, and was shown all that the 
stoves, and conservatories, and museums possessed, 
and made acquainted with the men of science. The 
Royal Academy of Sciences paid him a very high 
compliment. Having received permission to attend 
one of its sittings as a visiter, he was desired to wait 
a little while in the anteroom ; and it was at length 
announced that the Academy had elected him a cor- 
responding member.* He was importuned to remain 
in France, and indeed his merit everywhere produced 
the same consequences ; but he expressed his firm 
determination to return to his own country. 
From Paris, Linnaius went to Rouen, where he 
embarked for Sweden, after an absence of nearly three 
years ; during this period, he had vastly increased his 
information, particularly upon botany, and had taken 
advantage of the Dutch presses, to publish many of 
his works, which he had either previously written or 
' brought with him in an imperfect state, while the 
liberality of his patrons, and some learned societies, 
defrayed the expense, and even assisted to illustrate 
some of them with plates. 
Upon his arrival in Sweden, Linnaeus immediately 
visited his aged father, and thence proceeded to Stock- 
* Thus related by Dr Pultcney. 
