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merits of pharmacy in Warmholtz’s laboratory. He 
also obtained a large number of shells of different 
kinds for his own collection. 
By the 24th July he was back at Uppsala. How 
he busied himself during the rest of this year there is 
not much to relate, but his time was certainly much 
taken up by the tuition of the young Rudbecks (p. 49), 
private lectures, and writings for scientific journals. 
Hereto was observed the promise made to Stobseus 
that when he composed botanic works, on which he 
worked with burning earnestness, no contract should 
be made with ^Esculapius, “ if I am an honest fellow,” 
but he made use of Rosen’s private teaching for a 
glance into therapeutics. This he found less attrac¬ 
tive than natural history, even although he lacked 
opportunity to visit sick-rooms and learn from patients’ 
own mouths as formerly. At Lund, “ My natural 
history,” he says, “ has now no such free entry, though 
sometimes it sneaks in.” 
During this period he began also to arrange a 
portion of his written discourses ready for printing. 
At first he thought of beginning with “ Hortus 
Uplandicus ” on which he laboured till the end of July, 
1731, in Stockholm, and would have taken from a 
bookseller, who undertook to publish it, only a hundred 
copies. “ My other lucubrations,” he says, “ I thought 
of selling to Germans.” This attempt, like all the 
others which he made during succeeding years to find 
a publisher, met with no other result than disappointed 
hopes. “ First, he sent ‘ Hortus Uplandicus,’ which 
passed through many hands, but nobody thought it 
worth printing. Upon this he sent out his ‘ Nuptiae 
Plantarum’; printing was promised, but where this 
manuscript now is, not even the author knows. Now 
he received the promise to print the ‘ Fundamenta 
Botanica,’ but the medical faculty at Greifswald had 
condemned it as ‘ food for cockroaches.’ Luckless 
offspring! And what will happen when I appear as 
the antagonist of all botanists in the whole world? ” 
