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LINNAEUS 
exiled for three years, spending that time among the 
sick in Stockholm. Should life and health be vouch¬ 
safed to me, you will, I hope, now see me perform 
something noteworthy in botany.” 
He kept his word; during more than a third of 
a century, Uppsala became, through Linnaeus’s 
activity, the central point for the study of natural 
history, especially botany. 
