LINNtEUS. 
rivalled in his pretensions to his mistress, 
by the influence another had obtained vrith 
her father, he thought it necessary no long- 
er to delay his return. As soon, therefore, 
as he was able, after his recovery from a 
severe illness, he took his way through the 
Low Countries to Paris. At tliat capital he 
had recommendations to the Jussieus, who 
received him with great kindness, and made 
him known to Reaumur and other eminent 
naturalists, and showed him all the curiosi- 
ties of the place. At a visit to the Aca- 
demy of Sciences, it was announced to him 
that he was elected a corresponding mem- 
ber. The attachment of the French to the 
method of their eminent countryman, 
Tournefort, was unfavourable to the recep- 
tion of the Linnaean system among them, 
but he had reason to be satisfied with the 
personal attention which he experienced. 
At Rouen he embarked for Sweden, where, 
on his arrival, he immediately proceeded to 
Fahlun, and was formally betrothed to the 
object of his affections. In the month of 
September he went to Stockholm, in order 
to try his fortune as a physician,; but he 
found that his fame as a botanist had either 
not reached thither, or was of no service to 
him as a practitioner. At lengtli, however, 
he obtained the confidence of some young 
men of rank, who gave him considerable 
employment. A private meeting of men of 
science being formed in the capital, Lin- 
naeus was made an associate, and had the 
precedency for the first three months : this 
institution was the parent of the Royal 
Academy of Stockholm. His reputation 
made him known to Count Tessin, Marshal 
of the Diet, by whose influence a salaiy 
was conferred upon him, with the condition 
of his giving public lectures on botany in 
the summer, and on mineralogy in the win- 
ter. That nobleman also procured for him 
the post of Physician to the Navy, and gave 
him a general invitation to his table. His 
affairs now wore so prosperous an aspect, 
that he would no longer delay his union 
with his betrothed Anna-Elizabeth Moraea, 
and they married in June, 1739. 
The death of Rudbeck, professor of bo- 
tany at Upsal, in 1740, opened to Linnasus 
a prospect of the literary situation which 
had always been the object of his wishes, in 
which he might devote himself entirely to 
the improvement of natural history, unin- 
terrupted by the cares of medical practice. 
He had, however, a competitor, Rousen, 
this ancient rival and antagonist, whose 
superior academical claims obtained the 
preference. But the resignation of Rou- 
berg, the medical professor, having made 
another vacancy, that chair was given to 
Linnaeus, with the condition that he and 
Rousen should divide the business of the 
two professorships between them ; and to 
the former were allotted the departments of 
the botanic garden, materia mcdica, simio- 
logy, diaetetics, and natural history in gene- 
ral. Before his removal to Upsal, he was 
engaged by the States to travel through the 
southern provinces of Sweden, for the pur- 
pose of collecting such information as might 
tend to the improvement of agriculture and 
manufactures. In this tour he was accom- 
panied by six pupils, and he performed the 
task to the satisfaction of the States: its 
result was printed. He entered on his pro- 
fessorslrip in the autumn of 1741, on which 
occasion he pronounced a Latin oration 
“ On the necessity of travelhug one’s own 
country.” His own past exertions in this 
respect rendered it a very entertaining and 
interesting composition. In the same year 
he made the tour of the islands of Oeland 
and Gothland, by order of the States ; and 
in subsequent years he travelled, by the 
same requisition, through West Gothland 
and Scania. Exclusive of these exertions 
his abode was henceforth fixed at Upsal, 
and the remaining history of his life is 
only that of his literary and scientific la- 
bours, and of the honours and distinctions 
which were accumulated upon him. 
One of his first cares was to improve and 
new model the academic garden. ‘ He pro- 
cured the erection of several new buildings, 
arranged the plants according to his own 
system, and founded a museum of natural 
history in part of the green-house. In 
1745 he published the first edition of his 
“ Flora Succica,” an admirable specimen of 
a local catalogue, and the pattern of all 
those which have since been made upon the 
Linnsean system. In the next year ap- 
peared his “ Fauna Suecica,” or Catalogue 
of the Animal Kingdom in Sweden, ar- 
ranged also accordipg to his own method. 
In the numerous and difficult class of in- 
sects he adopted an entirely new method 
of arrangement, which has been adopted 
by most later entomologists. His merits, 
indeed, with respect to this class of natural 
productions, stands next to those witli re- 
spect to the vegetable productions. The 
same accurate inspection was requisite in 
both, and from the immense number of 
subjects in each, it was equally necessary 
in both to search out for minute diversities 
