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the vicissitudes of fortune, and could experience the 
joy of sharing each other's prosperity and adversity at 
all times and seasons." 
"An instance may be cited to show the quality and 
depth of our mutual attachment. When I was on the 
point of starting for far-distant Lapland, I ordained and 
appointed ARTEDI to be my sole heir and legatee in respect 
of all those my manuscripts and collections of natural 
history specimens, he solemnly undertaking and enga- 
ging to have such of them published and given to the 
world as might be deemed worthy thereof, for the event 
of the enterprise I was about to embark upon proving 
one from which I was not destined to return alive. He, 
again, on leaving Upsala for England, directed to be 
handed over into my keeping and for my use those of 
his books which he could not conveniently take with 
him on his journey, at the same time writing me word, 
who was then travelling on a tour of scientific investi- 
gation in Dalarna, that I was to take charge of the 
said books, and that they were to become my property, 
if Fate ordained that he should never come back to his 
native land again." 
In addition to the above statements LINN^US also 
makes some comments upon his friend's capabilities 
and acquirements in other departments of knowledge 
than natural history. "He was exceedingly well versed 
in litterse humaniores and in modern languages, was a 
profound philosopher, and possessed a sound knowledge 
of medicine; he had the power, moreover, of giving 
the most admirable addresses on very various subjects, 
wherein he displayed keen judgment and a thorough 
acquaintance with his topic, so that none of his hearers, 
on leaving the lecture-room, could fail to accord him 
the distinction of being a very great and learned man." 
The above quotations, it should be remembered, 
are from the pen of the man who was best qualified 
to form an estimate of ARTEDI, both as a personality 
and a scholar. That they "were prompted by feelings 
of genuine attachment, mingled with profound sorrow 
