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have prevented Linnaeus being ranked as one of the 
professors at Uppsala. The Riksdag [Parliament] 
decided to send travellers, at the State expense, to 
certain parts of southern Sweden, and this arrange¬ 
ment coming before the House of Nobles, fear was 
expressed that as Linnaeus was applying for a chair 
at Uppsala, the public service might suffer by his 
being unable to undertake any commission. Count 
Gyllenborg considered that so thoroughly equipped 
and learned a man would be more useful to the nation 
on such an expedition than if he gained the desired 
post; but events proved otherwise. 
As previously mentioned, the Chancellor had 
urged the Consistory to make a speedy decision con¬ 
cerning the vacant professorship. It finally resolved 
to put forward three names, Linnaeus, Sporing and 
Wallerius, the Chancellor naturally approving the 
first-named. On the 7th May, he was able to inform 
the Consistory that His Majesty two days before 
had appointed Linnaeus as Professor of Practical 
Medicine. 
On the 23rd May a letter from Linnaeus was read 
enclosing (1) a copy of the King’s warrant to succeed 
to Roberg’s place; and (2) a copy of the order of the 
Estates of the Realm authorizing him to travel 
through Oland and Gotland to investigate their 
natural productions. Linnaeus remained at Stock¬ 
holm until the 15th May, when he began his journey, 
returning on the 29th August. For a month longer 
he stayed in the capital, and on the 6th October 
removed to Uppsala, there to remain for the rest of 
his days. 
In a letter to Sauvages at this time Linnaeus 
wrote : “ Through the grace of God, I am being now 
freed from the wretched practice in Stockholm. I 
have obtained the post which I have so long desired : 
the King has appointed me Professor of Medicine 
and Botany at the University of Uppsala, and thereby 
again given me to botany, from which I have been 
