the man he ought to get to know, he being the most 
advanced in acquirements and the keenest in applica- 
tion in the department which LINN^US meant to make 
his own. For the time being, however, a meeting be- 
tween the two future scientists was precluded, by reason 
of ARTEDI having been summoned home to Nordmaling 
to his father's deathbed. 
ARTEDI appears to have prolonged his stay at his 
home till the close of that year and well on into the 
following one. Though he was doubtless much absorbed 
in the family arrangements consequent upon his father's 
decease, there is proof that he did not wholly lose sight 
of his scientific interests in the shape of a manuscript, 
preserved in the Upsala University Library, entitled "A 
Short List of the Trees, Bushes and Plants that are In- 
digenous to the Glebe-Lands in Nordmaling and the 
Villages lying in its Immediate Vicinity". This manu- 
script bears date: February 24 1729, but his return to 
Upsala must have taken place shortly afterwards, for 
he is reported as having participated, in the capacity 
of Opposer, at the keeping of an Act at his nation-house 
on the 2nd of April. 
As soon as LINNAEUS received news of ARTEDI being 
in Upsala again, he hastened to go and see him in or- 
der to make his acquaintance, and wrote subsequently, 
in his Introduction to ARTEDI'S "Ichthyologia", concerning 
the impression made upon him at this first meeting as 
follows: "I saw him before me, lofty of stature and 
spare of figure; his hair was long and his face reminded 
me of JOHN RAY'S *; he struck me as humble-minded, not 
hasty in forming an opinion, but yet prompt, firm and 
withal mature, a man of old-world honour and faith. 
It rejoiced me to remark that our talk turned at once 
upon stones, plants and animals, and I was much moved 
at having so many of his scientific observations confi- 
ded to me without the least hesitation or reserve upon 
that very first occasion on which we met. I sought 
1 The English natural scientist, 16281705. 
