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The purpose of his journey was thus happily attained, but “now 
Linnaeus’s money is all gone, . . . and Linnaeus will therefore have 
to go back with Claes Sohlberg, for he will not apply to his father- 
in-law whose temper he well knows.” Lately arrived as he was in 
a strange land, Linnaeus was in a predicament that was anything but 
pleasant. But this time, too, he was destined to be helped in a won¬ 
derful way. His attractive personality instantly won all who came 
in contact with him, while his mental gifts drew friends and admirers 
to him wherever he went. Thanks to these qualities, he soon formed 
intimate friendships with one after another of Holland’s leading 
scientists, among others their Nestor, the famous physician Boerhaave, 
before whom even the mighty Czar of Russia had waited for an audi¬ 
ence. This acquaintance was of the greatest importance in the career 
of Linnaeus, for Boerhaave persuaded a wealthy banker, George 
Clifford, who on his estate Hartekamp had splendid botanical and 
zoological gardens, to make Linnaeus the curator of all his collections. 
“So Linnaeus remains with Clifford,” he writes, “where he lives like 
a prince and is waited on by cook and lackeys, has the greatest garden 
under his inspection, is allowed to order all the plants that are lacking 
in the garden and all the books that are wanting in the library. And 
now Linnaeus also had the opportunity to work on his botany with 
all the material that he could desire at hand.” Now he was enabled 
to have printed not only the works he had planned in Uppsala but a 
number of new ones. The first to appear was Systerna naturae, in 
which he presented his new system in the three realms of nature, a work 
which in his own lifetime appeared in sixteen editions. Then one book 
followed upon another. In the brief period of two and a half years he 
had published, besides shorter essays, no less than fourteen works, 
almost all of epoch-making importance in the field of botany—an 
achievement which hardly has a parallel in the entire realm of science. 
At the expense of Mr. Clifford, Linnaeus went to England, where 
he met some of the greatest men in the world of natural sciences. 
Some of these, among them Dillenius, were suspicious of Linnaeus 
and his new doctrines, rumors of which had reached them; but through 
the lucid presentation of Linnaeus they were turned into his admirers 
and devoted friends. They would hardly let him go when the time 
came for him to return to Hartekamp. A number of flattering offers 
were made him, but he refused them all. His longing for the bride 
at Falun and his love for the mother country drew him and made him 
decide to go home. After a short visit to Paris, where he won new 
friends and new distinctions, he turned his face toward the homeland. 
He had left it as a promising but nevertheless rather obscure student; 
he came back as the master acclaimed by the greatest scholars of the 
world. 
The first journey of Linnaeus was to Stenbrohult, where his father 
