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Medical College was induced to have it done in the 
best way. Special meetings were held that they 
should agree how the anatomic event should be 
apportioned and who should undertake to demonstrate 
the various parts, and as it was known that judgment 
had been pronounced on the offender, a petition was 
sent up that the execution should take place after the 
New Year so that the dissection could happen 
conveniently. This was granted, and in a new meet¬ 
ing it was decided that as regards tickets, all Master- 
Veterinary Surgeons should get free tickets under the 
great seal of the College to the number of eighteen; 
that all Doctors should have free seats, but for all 
other spectators or hearers there should be an entrance 
fee each time of sixteen dalers in copper coinage 
[eight shillings]. 
This was naturally a great occasion for Linnseus. 
He certainly returned on the 19th January to Uppsala, 
but on the 29th he came back to Stockholm and 
attended the six lectures and demonstrations in the 
anatomic room in Sodra Malms Townhall, by the 
chief surgeons. He noted how each acquitted himself, 
as “ learnedly, elegantly, most learnedly, excellently,” 
once only reporting “ moderately.” Encouraged by 
the increasing interest in anatomy, after he had 
returned on the 23rd February to Uppsala, he pro¬ 
cured admission to the Anatomic Theatre. The 
building was well contrived with seven entrances, but 
it lacked a teacher. 
Now began a period full of trouble for Linnaeus. 
All the money he had from his parents on his departure 
for Uppsala, was spent on his journey from Smaland, 
university fees and maintenance, two journeys to 
Stockholm, with more than a month’s living there, 
entrance fees to the dissections, etc., etc. Certainly he 
had from the beginning cherished the hope of obtain¬ 
ing a scholarship, which was quickly realized inasmuch 
as on the 16th December, 1728, he received a Royal 
Medical Scholarship of the lowest class, but the help 
