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To this stage of Linnaeus’s writings may be added 
two papers which he contributed to the Scientific 
Society at Uppsala for its Transactions: one on 
“ Animals observed in Sweden,” and another on 
“ Known orchids.” According to a letter to Tessin 
in 1740, he had besides, a tract ready to be printed that 
summer in Holland, probably Gronovius’s “ Index 
supellectilis lapidea” (Lugd. Bat. 1740; ed. II. 16. 
1750), said by Linnaeus to be almost wholly his own. 
Such was his literary activity at a period when he was 
nearly overwhelmed with a multitude of other time- 
consuming duties. 
It was not long, however, before he began to find 
his extensive medical practice as an oppressive 
burden, and longed for a return to the quiet world 
of botany. The success he had met with as a lecturer 
awakened his old desire to work as a university 
teacher, his future plans concentrating more and more 
upon obtaining the professorial chair of the aged 
Rudbeck. If he could not obtain that post, he was 
ready, whenever Haller called him, to move to 
Gottingen, if he could take his little wife with him. 
This was only in case of necessity, for he desired 
most of all to labour in the medical faculty at Uppsala. 
Officially, conditions were similar to those of his 
student time. Olof Rudbeck the younger was still 
professor, but enjoyed continuous vacation to work at 
his great philological work, “ Lexicon harmonicum,” 
while Adjunct Rosen, now physician in ordinary to 
the King, and Assessor in the Medical College, was 
appointed his deputy. It was printed in the list of 
lectures year after year unaltered, that he would 
lecture on anatomy and botany, also that Professor 
Roberg would publicly lecture on Human Physiology 
and Characters of Diseases, sometimes on Chemistry. 
Actually the official promises were not fulfilled. Old, 
and with weakened powers, Roberg seldom lectured 
in public, and never in private during later years, 
while Rosen, though appointed to discharge Rud- 
