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(died in his infancy : Elizabeth Chriftiana, who married 
Bergencrantz, a captain of cavalry ; fhe has been fome 
years dead, and left one daughter ; Louifa, and Sarah 
Chriftiana, both at prefent refident with their mother at 
Hammarby : and Sophia, who is married to Dufe, pro- 
curator of'ithe fenate of the univerfity of Upfal. 
His fon Charles fucceeded Linne in the office of 
ProfefTor of Botany at Upfal, He had, as may be readily 
conjedlured, been early encouraged in the ftudies of na- 
tural fciencc ; but by an unaccountable hatred with 
which his mother purfued him, his home became un- 
pleafant, and his pnrfiiits difguftful : after his fathers 
death, however, his zeal for the promotion of natural 
fcience returned; he purchafed from her his fathers 
manufcripts and colleftions ; and in 1781, with the af- 
(iftance of Ehrhart, publifhed at Brunfwick the Supple- 
mentum Plantarum. In the fpring of the fame year, 
he vifited London, and was received by Sir Jofeph Banks 
and the moft eminent naturalills of Great Britain, with 
a warmth of regard and attention, which at once did 
honour to their liberality and the memory of his father. 
From England he travelled into France, where, among 
the many teftimonies of efteem he received from the firft 
charadlers in fcience, he was prefented by Louis XVI. 
with a copy of the fplendid colledlion of plants engraved 
hy his majefty’s command. From Paris he proceeded to 
Holland, and returned to Stockholm through Weflphalia 
and Lower Saxony, after an abfence of about two years. 
