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known at the court. Count Teffin, at that time pofcffed 
of great influence, gave him his patronage, and in a fhort 
time procured him the office of Phyfician to the fleet and 
botanift to the king, In poffeflion to thefe honourable 
offices, together with a lucrative profeffion, on the 26th 
of June he married Mifs Moraeus. 
In the latter end of the fame year, by tiie mtereft ct 
Teffin, he laid the foundation of the Royal Academy of 
Sciences at Stockholm, of which he was appointed the 
firfl prefident. The duration of this office was by the 
ftatutes of the inflitution determinable at the end of three 
months, and upon his refignation he made an oration on 
the Angularities in the habits and manners of infedls. 
Teffin feems to have been his great Maecenas, to 
have fought him in his obfeurity, and to have conduaed 
him to the higheft regards and honours. He procured 
him a penfion from the treafury, made him prefident of 
the college of phyficians, introduced him to two kings, 
caufedhim to be ennobled, and recommended him topof- 
terity by a medal. To this noble patron Linmeus dedi- 
cated thetwelth edition of iiis Syflema Naturap, and u} 
a grateful ftrain of the moft afibaing eloquence, he thus 
pours out his acknowledgments. 
Cum quivis auaor -fperet fe apud poftcros gratiam 
Habere, et poffe fecum duratura nomma educcre, 
Audori mcie fortuns Ubellum_ ulumo nunc offerb. 
Hie roe, peregrinu.-n in patria, reducem excepif,^ 
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