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>/• Skilled in the groundwork of natural history 
and medicine, that in all these subjects he may have 
better insight. 
0. Understanding all three kingdoms, perhaps 
more difficult to find than a bird of paradise, for 
amongst all our botanists there are few who are at 
home in the other two kingdoms, but hardly one who 
is competent in all. 
i. Born a naturalist, not made, for it is remarkable 
how they differ when they come to practise, as I can 
testify by countless examples. 
k. A draughtsman, that he may better describe 
by drawings the rare things observed.” 
A person so endowed, according to Linnaeus’s 
views, would be the best to be sent on the journey of 
discovery, “ but there are few here in Sweden endowed 
with all these attributes, a fact which I consider it 
difficult if not impossible to overcome.” Failing a 
better one, he offers himself to undertake the Lapland 
journey, as he at least possesses the chief of the 
requisites mentioned. He specially wishes to show 
that he had sufficient knowledge of botany and 
zoology, and declares himself willing, if required, to 
submit himself for examination. In mineralogy, 
which he studied under Professor Stobaeus, he admits 
he was not as expert as desirable, but this want could 
be supplied, as he was to stay at Lund for a month or 
two to study. 
He applied therefore for 600 copper dalers [^15] 
for the said journey to Lapland during the next 
summer, “ as I then shall be at leisure and free, for 
one cannot travel, and pursue my medical studies 
without means.” For all the troubles and risks of 
the journey he declares that he wishes for nothing 
but to have a recommendatory letter from the Royal 
Society, securing him a travelling stipend, so that he 
may finish his studies. 
A few days after delivery of this application, 
Linnaeus started, as already stated, to Smaland, where 
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