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LINNAEUS 
of the Chancellor to enable Schreber to reach Sweden, 
which was effectual. The newcomer intended to 
enjoy Linne’s teaching during the summer and in the 
autumn to offer himself for examination for M.D. 
But he was found so well grounded, so extraordinarily 
quick in biology, and possessing such ready insight, 
that no one in the medical faculty had previously met 
with his equal, so that he passed in June, with special 
approbation, and in the same month was promoted 
Doctor. During the summer he heard lectures at 
Hammarby, after which he went back to Germany; 
afterwards remaining in permanent communication 
with Uppsala; he also edited the second editions of 
“ Materia medica,” and “ Amoenitates Academicae.” 
Another in whom Linne felt great interest, was 
P. D. Giseke, who came to learn direct about 
natural orders. He sent to Linne a copy of his 
dissertation “ Systemata plantarum recentiora,” for 
which Linne returned a most friendly letter, begin¬ 
ning: “You want to get from me the characters of 
natural families: I confess that I cannot give such.” 
Giseke spent the summer of 1771 at Hammarby, in 
constant touch with Linne, spending so much time, 
that when he took leave of “ optimus senex ” (the most 
worthy old man), he was reminded that no pains for 
him had been grudged. On being asked what would 
satisfy his teacher for what he had received, he was 
told: “What you please.” Twenty years later he 
joined with Fabricius in a volume on the subject of 
natural orders, but that came out after their teacher’s 
death. 
The only Englishman among these was John 
Rotheram. At the end of June, 1773, he arrived at 
Uppsala, and was registered in the University and 
the Smalands Nation. Some time after he fell ill, 
but was carefully nursed by the wife and daughters of 
Linne, as a warm letter of thanks from his father in 
1774 testified. After that he seems to have become so 
intimate in Linne’s home, that he was one of the two 
