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number of plants does not exceed one thoufand two hundred. It 
was in the univerfity of Lund that Linnaeus, under the counte¬ 
nance and tuition of profeffor Stobieus, acquired his firft ideas of 
his arrangements in natural hiftory ; and he lived to fee his 
favourite ftudy beginning to flourifh in that feminary, under the 
influence of one of his own pupils. Before this dawn, we find 
him in his writings expreffing his wonder, that in a fituation 
much more favourable than that of Upfala, as being four degrees 
more foutherly and wefterly, the garden of Lund had not rifen 
to fome eminence. The univerfity was eftablifhed in 1688, by 
Charles XI. and called after his name— Academia Carolina Got ho - 
rum. The profefforfhips are divided into four claffes or faculties : 
—] ft. Theology ; 2 d. Jurifprudence ; 3 d. Medicine ; 4 th. Philo- 
fophy: to which there has been added a fifth clafs of profeffors, 
under the name of ArtiUx\j Cultjorum Magistri, or Profef- 
fors of the more elegant Accomplijhments , viz. of fencing, mufic, 
dancing, and drawing. In theology there are three profeffors, 
and two profefifors extraordinary, befides what they call two ma- 
gijlri docentes, or private teachers, whofe bufinefs it feems to be, 
not only to inftrud the ftudents in divinity and ecclefiaftical hif- 
tory, and to expound to them fome portion annually of the facred 
feriptures, but alfo, in an eafy and familiar manner, to folve their 
doubts by an explanation of any difficult point in the Bible, or 
any other fubjed that the ftudents may wdh to have illuftrated. 
In like manner the affiftant profeffors in the other faculties, in this 
as well as in the other Swedifh univerfities, are always ready to 
anfwer 
