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lo attend his lectures people streamed from all parts of Europe and 
even from America. As one of his best pupils Linnaeus mentions the 
American, Dr. Adam Kuhn, who afterwards became professor in 
Philadelphia. There was also a Mass Colden, daughter of the gov¬ 
ernor of New York, Cadwalader Colden, who studied under Linnaeus. 
It was not only the novelty of the matter presented which attracted 
students, but also the fascinating and lucid quality of his style which 
was always adapted to the subject, sometimes spiced with humor, 
sometimes rising to the level of a poetic hymn to the Creator. 
Lack of space makes it impossible even to mention what he 
achieved in the various fields of natural science. In all the realms of 
nature his hand brought order and plan. With the eye of thought 
he pierced the most hidden secrets of nature. More than a century 
before Pasteur he expressed his conviction that infectious diseases 
were transmitted by minute organisms which at that time it was not 
possible to see. He gave names to all known plants and animals, so 
that he has been called “The new Adam.” 
Books could be written only about his journeys within the boun¬ 
daries of his own country. He describes all Sweden from the Norrland 
mountains, where he lived in the huts of the Lapps, to the palaces of 
Skane surrounded by stately parks and imbedded in beech woods. He 
tells about nature and about people, their customs, their ancient belief 
in wraiths and fortune-tellers, their household remedies and supersti¬ 
tions all in a style as fresh and bubbling as spring water. But his 
explorations did not end with Sweden. Linnaeus—or von Linne, as 
he was called after he was ennobled—sent his disciples to distant lands: 
to Palestine and Arabia, to Africa and East India. One of his most 
distinguished “apostles,” as he jestingly called them, Pehr Kalm, 
landed in the autumn of 1748 on the shores of the Delaware in the 
Swedish colony, travelled and investigated the natural history of North 
America for a period of three years, and sent home to Linne collec¬ 
tions of all kinds to be classified. 
Linne describes his own appearance as follows: “Linnaeus was 
neither large nor small, lean, brown-eyed, sprightly, impulsive, walked 
fast, did everything promptly, could not bear slow people, was sensi- 
E ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ worked without ceasing and could not spare him¬ 
self.” 
All his life he had worked more than his strength—more than 
anybody’s strength—could bear, and the constant strain told on him. 
He fell ill, and it looked as though his illness would be fatal. Then 
a man who had been his antagonist from the time of his youth, Dr. 
Nils Rosen, entered his sick-room and by his care and skill saved the 
patient s life. When Linne awoke from his long unconsciousness, he 
recognized his former opponent, and there at his sick-bed a friendship 
was formed which lasted until death parted them. Linne never re- 
