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youngest boys, with a salary of 50 silver dalers per 
annum [ £ 3 15s.]. He was also to coach a fourth son, 
Johan Olof, in medicine in his leisure hours, receiving 
an extra 40 dalers [^3] and stipend of 60 dalers 
\_£a ios.J, altogether amounting to £11 5s., so 
that Linnaeus had now, as he confessed, a sufficient 
income through God’s favour. In passing, it may be 
stated, that Rudbeck had been thrice married and had 
twenty-four children. 
As regards the emoluments just mentioned, it was 
due to Rudbeck’s appeal to the Great Consistory that 
a double Royal stipend should be awarded to Carl 
Linnaeus, as one of the most spirited and promising 
of the young men folk, and that he should act as 
Docent or Assistant Professor, giving as a reason, that 
though in poverty he had acted with such energy and 
perseverance, especially in botany, that he should be 
encouraged by special favours. This was approved 
by some of the professors, who, recognizing the merits 
of the case, urged the Chancellor to entertain the idea. 
Soon afterwards the consent was given, so* that 
Linnaeus, during the period of his teaching, was 
regarded as the most eminent among the medical 
pupils. 
The income now enumerated was not the only 
amount Linnaeus possessed at that time, for he had 
also earned some by the instruction of students bv 
going two or three times each week to give private 
lectures in the field to his colleagues. What these 
were during the summer term of 1730, appear from 
his own notes still extant, which show that not only 
medical students, but others also availed themselves 
of his guidance. What they paid is also noted; some 
did so in money, others, the majority, gave books, such 
as Caspar Bauhin’s “ Pinax ”—the actual copy being 
in the library of the Linnean Society with the auto¬ 
graph of the new owner and the date when acquired; 
others again gave useful articles, as hats, stockings, 
hair-purses, gloves, etc. 
