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remained as he was? It will be shown that that 
which happened, was the best both for him and for 
science. 
Already when in the spring the lecture courses 
were published for the period from midsummer of 
that year to the same time next year, it was decided 
that Rudbeck, through Rosen as his deputy, should 
give botanic lectures in the botanic garden at four 
o’clock in the afternoon. That Linnaeus by this felt 
mortified or depressed appears from his letters and 
notes at that time. 
Immediately after the conclusion of his lectures, 
whilst Rudbeck was drinking the waters at a watering 
place, he arranged to take a journey to Stockholm 
in Rudbeck’s post yacht, a means of travelling much 
used and enjoyed by the commonalty, in company 
with twenty students, who were now going down after 
the end of term. By much labour and exertion, they 
succeeded, during a calm, in reaching a small island 
named Kofso, on Midsummer Day at two a.m. “ The 
sailors and my companions,” he relates, “ went off to 
refresh themselves, and sleep, but I landed, and went 
to and fro, from side to side, leaving only a yard from 
the former path, almost as a man ploughs. I had 
hardly completed my course and plucked a leaf of 
each plant, before the captain ordered all on board, 
as a new breeze had sprung up, but I venture to say 
that hardly a single plant had escaped my hand, 
except mosses.” A catalogue of eighty species is still 
extant, and bears the title “ Flora Kofsoensis.” 
On his reaching Stockholm, where Linnaeus had 
free lodging with Apothecary Warmholtz, he 
employed his time chiefly in visiting the gardens in 
the capital and its neighbourhood. He also made an 
excursion to Wiksberg, a noted watering place; the 
result being his “ Hortus ” and “ Adonis Uplan- 
dicus.” Moreover, during this stay in Stockholm, he 
did not omit to become acquainted with the medical 
cabinet of the Medical College, nor to learn the rudi- 
