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“ Flora lapponica,” but nevertheless because of his 
own observation and study of earlier authors, he drew 
up some smaller works, hoping to find some benevolent 
publisher who would disseminate his new ideas 
throughout home and foreign countries. In the course 
of the year, he had finished fourteen memoirs; some 
already named; but others may now be mentioned, as 
“ Systema botanica,” “ Philosophia botanica,” with 
augmentation to nearly four hundred fundamental pro¬ 
positions ; “ Harmonymia botanica,” correcting many 
errors in genera and species, “ Characteres generici,” 
“ Species plantarum,” and “ Diseta naturalis,” showing 
how careful diet conduces to the prolongation of life. 
The teaching Linnaeus imparted in the early part 
of the year, does not seem to have been very profit¬ 
able. Probably he did not consider himself justified 
in spending much time herein, for at the close of the 
spring term, he expected a new payment of the Wrede 
scholarship surplus, but in this, he found himself 
unhappily mistaken. After the death of the Academic 
Treasurer, J. Landberg, in the early part of the year, 
much time passed before the accounts of the 
University could be brought into such a state as 
to decide whether a surplus existed or not. Thus 
Linnaeus found himself in pecuniary embarrassment, 
and ultimately it was shown that no surplus would be 
available during that or the following year. This 
money trouble was, however, modified by a student, 
C. F. Mennander, a recent acquaintance, who paid 
him for lectures on Natural History. 
These economic difficulties spurred him on to 
energetic teaching. When spring approached 
Linnaeus found twenty auditors, resulting in 49 silver 
dalers [about £3 14s.], and according to custom, 
various botanic excursions took place under his leader¬ 
ship, yet he was still unable to get out of debt for his 
Lapland journey, though he thus had a little allevia¬ 
tion of his poverty. 
Linnaeus spent the summer of 1733 at Uppsala, 
