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come back. The Professor meanwhile in the autumn 
after a stay in Stockholm, probably after his cure, 
engaged an excellent, virtuous and intelligent man, 
namely gardener Christopher Herman, who had 
approved himself during twenty-three years’ service 
in good situations. Hereto may be added Rudbeck’s 
remark, that he had a better opinion about Linnaeus 
than that he should remain in the situation of a 
gardener, is certainly not improbable, but not to be 
found in the minutes of the Consistory. 
But it was not only in an economic aspect that 
Linnaeus profited by his intimacy with Celsius. It 
was an invaluable advantage that the latter offered 
free use of his library, which was rich in botanic books. 
Presumably he had also the opportunity of making 
use of Celsius’s extensive botanic notes, which testify 
to a wide reading in the whole of the literature belong¬ 
ing to that subject. These notes form four volumes, 
preserved in the manuscript department of the 
University library. 
It was natural that Linnaeus should be specially 
eager to know the productions of the three kingdoms 
of nature which occurred in the new tract of country 
to which he had been transferred. In the castle 
garden laid out by Rudbeck, though now in decay, 
for the first time he saw some less common plants, and 
that to the said garden he paid not merely a hasty 
visit, is testified by the plan of it, which is to be found 
in his manuscript “ Hortus Uplandicus.” The 
gardens also belonging to Olof Celsius and the 
apothecary Lambert, yielded welcome contributions 
to his herbarium. Besides the excursions taken in 
the nearer neighbourhood of Uppsala, it is evident 
from his manuscript “ Spolia Botanica,” that more 
distant parts were visited. 
The first long excursion was at Whitsuntide to the 
tract around Dannemora, twenty-eight miles north of 
Uppsala and famous for its iron, the best in Sweden, 
when he took with him his student comrade, Johannes 
