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Hammarby in Uppland, Linne’s Summer Home 
received with great joy all the books which the son had published in 
Holland. Then he hurried to Falun to the bride who had been waiting 
for him four years. Her father advised Linnaeus to begin practising 
as a physician in the capital. He followed the advice, but “Stockholm 
received Linnaeus as a stranger. . . . Since he was quite unknown, 
no one would entrust his precious life, or indeed the life of his dog, 
to the hands of an untried doctor. If Linnaeus had not been in love he 
would certainly have gone abroad again and quitted Sweden.” Never¬ 
theless, his Smaland enterprise and confidence in his luck stood him 
in good stead once more: before half a year had passed, he had the 
largest practice in the city and could count the queen among his 
patients; he was made physician to the Admiralty, and the newly 
organized Academy of Sciences elected him as its first president. 
Now Linnaeus could marry his Sara Elisabeth and found his own 
home. 
Neither the honors that came to him nor his work as a physician 
could for any length of time satisfy Linnaeus. His inclination was 
again drawn to his favorite study, that of botany, and he applied for 
a professorship in this subject at Uppsala. “Every possible kind of 
subterfuge was used in Uppsala so that Linnaeus should not get the 
professorship.” It was not before 1741 that he reached the goal 
toward which he had worked for so many years. His first care was 
now to restore, or rather to lay out anew, the Botanical Garden which 
had been allowed to grow wild. Through the efforts of Linnaeus it 
soon became a centre for the botanical research of the whole world. 
