Charles XII, that university had been obliged to close 
its portals, and though by this time reopened and re- 
constituted, it had not attained to anything like its former 
status. Consequently it was in Upsala that PETER in- 
scribed his name as a matriculated student, on October 
30 1724. As a matter of fact the actual signature in the 
university register is by another hand, doubtless that 
of the Dean of the Faculty for the time being; the entry 
runs: - - "Petrus Arctelius Angerm. 1 ", thus showing a 
slight scribal error. In another register, that in which 
the newly arrived undergraduates inscribed their names 
and the amounts subscribed to the library funds, we 
find in PETER'S own hand-writing: - 
with the amount paid in: 4 dalers 16 ore. This signa- 
ture shows that up to that time he retained the family 
name in the same spelling as that adopted by his grand- 
father; it was not till some years subsequently that he 
assumed the variant by which he is known to fame. 
It w r as originally intended that he should devote 
himself to the study of theology at the university, that 
he might in due time follow in the footsteps of his 
father and grandfather and perhaps even succeed to 
the living of Nordmaling. His own pronounced bent, 
however, in another direction forbade him to adopt 
that course in obedience to his father's natural desires 
on his behalf; the keen interest he had felt in natural 
history as quite a boy, and the taste he had imbibed 
1 Angerm [annus] denotes: "From the District of Angerman- 
land". Undergraduates at Upsala (and Lund) are classed in "Nations", 
according to the parts of the country from which they come. The 
joining of a Nation is an obligatory preliminary to matriculation. 
Each Nation has a club-house of its own, and administers scholar- 
ship funds &c. for the benefit of its members. 
