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copper dalers [^12 10s. to ,£10], and gave details 
based upon mileage. 
This document produced the desired result. The 
next day, 15th April, a meeting was held when 
Linnaeus’s letter was read, and it was resolved that 
400 dalers in copper should be granted for travel¬ 
ling expenses from the Society’s funds. This sum 
was obviously too small for the intended object, but 
the Society did all that it could, for according to the 
accounts, only one daler nineteen ore (about ten- 
pence) remained as balance in the treasury. Informa¬ 
tion of the resolution was sent a few days later to the 
President, State Councillor Arvid Horn, who gave 
his consent and approbation. Further, the Society 
published in the “ Posttidningen ” what had been 
decided in order to obtain information about Lapland, 
and that Carl Linnaeus had been chosen to investigate 
in all three kingdoms of nature, the healthiness and 
inconveniences of the country, with a description of 
the mode of life and the inhabitants. The agreed 
sum was paid over by Anders Celsius on the 26th of 
April. 
With this the journey became assured, and it only 
remained for the unusually long and severe winter 
to end. This period of suspense was employed in 
necessary equipment. How this was done appears 
from Linnaeus’s Diary in which he wrote how he got 
his things and clothes together, thus : 
“ My clothes consisted of a light coat of West- 
gothland linsey (woolsey cloth) without folds, lined 
with red shalloon, having small cuffs and collar of 
shag; leather breeches; a round wig; a green leather 
cap, and a pair of half-boots. I carried a small 
leather bag, half an ell in length, but somewhat less 
in breadth, furnished on one side with hooks and 
eyes, so that it could be opened at pleasure. This 
bag contained one shirt, two pairs of false sleeves 
and two half shirts; an inkstand, pencase, microscope 
and spying glass, a gauze cap to protect me occasion- 
