CARL VON LINNE 
From a Painting by Per Krafft the Elder 
The Swedish Linnean Society, founded five years ago to perpetuate the memory 
of the great botanist, has inaugurated a campaign to reproduce the old Botanical 
Garden which played so large a part in the life of Linne. In this famous garden, 
founded in 1655 by Professor Olof Rudbeck, Linne worked and studied as a young 
student at Uppsala, and there he gave his first public lectures on botany. There, in 
later years, he planted the seeds brought from all parts of the world by his “apostles,” 
and under his guidance it became the most complete botanical garden in Europe. In 
the beginning of the nineteenth century a new botanical garden was laid out in Upp¬ 
sala, and many of the plants in Linne’s collection were moved there, while the old gar¬ 
den itself was allowed to become a mere pleasure park. Fortunately there are extant 
plans and lists, many of them from the hand of Linne himself, so that it will be possible 
to restore it to the original form. Through the courtesy of the University the Linnean 
Society has been able to acquire not only the garden but Linne’s house which stood in 
one corner of it. This will be made into a Linne museum on the order of the Shake¬ 
speare museum in Stratford-on-Avon. 
