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formed, that the Academie received him as a Foreign 
Correspondent. More, the President intimated that 
if he chose to become French, the Academie would 
appoint him a member with an annual pension, but he 
remained faithful to his fatherland. 
After Linnaeus had achieved all that he wanted 
from a scientific point of view, he began to think 
about his return journey, for his object was not to 
learn French habits or foreign languages, as time is 
never more dearly bought than when one travels 
abroad merely to study languages. It was known 
that Linnaeus’s habits did not give him time to study 
these, but nevertheless he did well in conversation 
everywhere. His stay in Paris, which was intended 
to last a fortnight, was extended to a whole month, 
and his purse had so diminished, that he found him¬ 
self obliged to forego a journey to Germany, and pass 
direct, by the cheapest way, to Sweden. After re¬ 
ceiving on the 18th June from P. A. Fleming, the 
Swedish Minister, an open recommendation, he 
travelled to Rouen. Thence he sailed with a fair 
wind to the Cattegat, when the wind suddenly turning, 
he landed at Helsingborg to visit his old father once 
again. He was received with extreme joy at Sten- 
brohult, where he put into the old man’s hands the 
many books he had published on the subject in which 
his father had so much pleasure. After a couple of 
weeks resting at home, he continued his journey 
direct to Falun, to greet his fiancee, who had waited 
for him nearly four years. Then followed a formal 
betrothal, and a month later, he journeyed to Stock¬ 
holm, there meaning to spend his life. 
