CHAPTER IX 
LINNE AS A TEACHER-HIS PUPILS AND HIS RELATIONS 
WITH THEM 
On the 25th October, 1741, the Rector of Uppsala 
University issued a Latin invitation addressed to all 
and sundry to attend in the Caroline audience hall on 
the 27th at nine a.m. to hear the Latin lecture, with 
which the newly appointed Professor, Carl Linnaeus, 
would enter upon his duties. The lecture was on the 
discoveries which could be made, and the benefit 
which might result from natural history travels in 
Sweden, and he took the opportunity of imparting the 
most important details which he had himself observed 
in similar journeys. After this, with the accustomed 
ceremonies, the new Professor took the oath and 
placed himself at the table amongst his colleagues. 
With this, his professorial activity began. There 
was, however, this abnormality, that he and his fellow 
professor, N. Rosen, were appointed to teach science 
in those departments in which each was weak, whilst 
the other was eminent. They therefore presented a 
joint appeal to the Chancellor, begging that their 
lectures should be so ordered that Rosen should 
undertake Practical Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology, 
Pathology, and Pharmaceutic Chemistry, whilst Lin¬ 
naeus should teach Botany, Metallurgic Chemistry, 
Semiotics (Pathology combined with symptoms). 
Dietetics, and Materia medica, also to superintend the 
botanic garden. As the Consistory approved this 
exchange of duties, the Chancellor confirmed it on 
the 21st January, 1742, on which day Linne attained 
the place he had so ardently desired. 
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