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2. To teach them the terms in the vegetable and 
animal kingdom. 
3. To draw up correct descriptions of animals and 
plants. 
4. To discharge the herborizations when the 
Professor is prevented from doing so, by age, 
sickness or other cause. 
5. Daily to see after the garden, and to report to 
the Prefect [Linne]. 
6. To compile lists of plants in the garden, and 
the results of sowing, with their respective 
numbers. 
7. To have in readiness plants from the garden 
and field for demonstrations. 
8. To keep the museum so that nothing may be 
spoiled. 
9. To keep the accounts of the garden. 
10. If the Professor should be ill, to lecture in his 
place on natural history and botany, in public. 
To obtain a skilled gardener seemed impossible, 
but a substitute was found in L. Broberg, spoken of by 
Linne as at first having little insight, but an ardent 
disposition, so that he daily improved in a marvellous 
degree. Seeing the need of studying in other 
countries, he obtained leave of absence, his salary being 
continued for the support of his family, with a contribu¬ 
tion for his travelling expenses. During his absence, 
a German named Hancke acted as deputy, but as soon 
as the war in Germany had ended, and he felt free 
from war-service, he went back to his native land. 
Linne then had no assistant but Lofgren, an old man, 
and further help had to be supplied for the wants of 
the garden. 
During his absence Broberg visited the larger 
gardens in Denmark, Holland, and Germany, and on 
his return, Linne was so pleased with his progress that 
the Consistory appointed him Academic Gardener, 
and as such he remained during Linne’s lifetime. 
A controversy which caused much annoyance to the 
