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oration. The subject he treated on that occasion was, 
curiously enough, not one chosen from his own depart- 
ment of learning; it was entitled "De Serie Philosopho- 
rum a Condit. Mund." In explanation of that, at first 
sight, strange circumstance, it may be noted that it 
was quite in accord with the usage of that day for 
some such topic to be dealt with on those occasions; 
nor was, indeed, the study of philosophy itself so alien 
to the bent of ARTEDI'S 1 mind as might be supposed 
from the general tenor of the works by which he made 
himself famous. On the whole, it would seem from 
the scanty data preserved to us that ARTEDI, without 
distinguishing himself in any special way among his 
fellow-students, contributed his part to such undergrad- 
uate social life, and took his fair share of such ad- 
ministrative work in his Nation, as may have existed 
or occurred at that day. 
As his university course lengthened out and he 
found himself advancing in years, anxieties as to the 
future began to occupy his attention. It is easy for us 
to imagine the gradually increasing discontentment he 
must have felt at having spent so long at a seat of 
learning so poorly equipped as was the Upsala of his 
time in the special branch of knowledge to which he 
had devoted himself, and the consequent desire that 
took possession of him to find some means of extending 
his horizon by going abroad, in order to pursue his 
studies in more stimulating surroundings. He had, in- 
deed, for some time been in the receipt of a scholar- 
ship, which had assisted him to defray the cost of his 
maintenance at Upsala, but he now bethought himself 
of endeavouring to obtain such aid as would enable 
him to travel and study at first hand those collections 
and materials belonging to his science which were so 
essential to his progress. From the register of the 
scholarship funds distributed by the University we can 
see that his teachers had early rewarded him to the 
1 From the work cited we find that it was while Curator that 
A. adopted this simplified spelling of his family name. 
