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LINNAEUS 
1751, and when only thirteen, became a student at 
Uppsala, where his progress was so marked, that in 
1768 he was prosector in Stockholm, and in 1770, at 
the age of nineteen, lectured in the place of Professor 
R. Martin. He was promoted M.D. in 1772, on the 
last occasion when Linne officiated as promotor. Dur¬ 
ing an extensive tour in Europe, hearing bad accounts 
of Linne’s health, he gave full expression to his sorrow 
in one of his letters. Upon his return, he found the 
old Professor still alive, and by his influence he was 
instituted as the first Professor of Anatomy in Uppsala 
University. 
Erik Acharius was Linne’s last pupil. Born in 
Gavle in 1757, he was inscribed as student at Uppsala 
in 1773, and disputed on “ Planta aphyteia ” in 1776, 
the last occasion when Linne was Praeses. He 
travelled afterwards in the New World, but his famous 
lichenological works belong to a later period. He 
died in Vadstena in 1819. 
Finally may be named a man who was never a 
student at Uppsala, but was occasionally connected 
with Linne, who exercised so great an influence over 
him that he may justly be counted in the ranks of his 
pupils. This was Anders Jahan Retzius, “ The giant 
in learning,” because to him there was “ nothing un¬ 
known, nothing unheard, nothing new.” Thus he 
wrote in his “ Prodronus Florae Scandinavicae ”: “At 
the most, I have been only twenty hours with that 
incomparable man, but I seem to have had as great 
advantages as of two years’ coaching. I fancied that 
in the Linnean method were many defects, but in my 
youthful bashfulness I was ashamed to ask his help in 
explaining them. But those were golden and priceless 
hours during which I conversed with the world-famous 
old man! ” 
With this is closed the sketch of Linne’s pupils and 
his relation to them. The words of one of our most 
distinguished naturalists, Elias Fries, may be quoted: 
“ What Gustaf Adolf and his heroic band in a political 
