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Rudbeck allotting to it an outbuilding in the 
Gustayianum. In spite of this during the first ten 
years of the eighteenth century anatomical teaching 
had sunk to such insignificance as at the present day 
is inconceivable. A complaint in 1715 to the Con¬ 
sistory, resulted in a promise by Professor Roberg 
that an anatomic demonstration should be held. 
Three years later he issued, for students’ use, his 
well-known text-book “ Lijkrevnings-tavlor ” [Plates 
for dissections]. That this was followed by autopsies, 
is not reported, but it is evident that just before 
Linnaeus’s arrival anatomic teaching under the 
Adjunct Martin’s guidance had been prosecuted with 
no little ardour. It advanced so that the Professor 
of Law, Reftelius, lamented in the Consistory con¬ 
cerning anatomy, that it was prosecuted on the days 
and at the hours when public and private lectures 
were given, and that youths were thereby kept from 
their other exercises. The Consistory therefore 
decided that the anatomical demonstrations should 
be held only on certain days. Work in the anatomy 
school was carried on more diligently since Nils 
Rosen’s return from his travels abroad. According 
to Dr. Wallin’s account, Dr. Rosen, during the anatomy 
lectures, used lights every day in the school, so it was 
resolved that Rosen should be informed at once that 
lights should not be used, for fear of fire in the 
library. It must be taken as a special piece of bad 
luck that Linnaeus came up to Uppsala immediately 
after Martin’s death, and before Rosen came home 
from abroad, thus at a time when there was no instruc¬ 
tion in anatomy nor in chemistry. 
As regards the latter subject, it may be enough to 
state that the University did not possess a chemical 
laboratory. Chemical lectures were seldom given, 
but when they were, the students assembled at the 
University apothecary’s, where a few simple chemical 
experiments were shown. It was still worse as 
regards zoology; not a trace of the collections belong- 
