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LINNAEUS 
Still, it was natural that as his strength declined and 
age increased, the garden showed signs of dilapi¬ 
dation. The younger Linne relates, “ that his late 
father became tired of the garden in his later years, 
and was so annoyed by the Consistory, that he ceased 
to deliver the seeds he received, but kept them him¬ 
self, the garden thus losing its renewals, and the 
animals died.” He set himself to renovate the place, 
but lacked his father’s energy and enthusiasm; further, 
a lengthy foreign tour, and then illness, prevented 
him from succeeding. 
His successor, C. P. Thunberg, was a diligent 
prefect, who induced Gustaf III. to allot to him a new 
botanic garden in the higher part of the town, where 
the foundation-stone was laid, a century after Linne’s 
birth, to honour his memory. 
Most of the plants were transferred from the old 
to the new garden, but some remained until recent 
times. In 1850 there were about forty species of 
undoubted Linnean origin; by 1903, the number had 
fallen to three, besides a black poplar near the 
entrance, which in its turn succumbed in 1911. Of 
the plants transferred, there were, in 1877-99, when 
Professor T. M. Fries was prefect, several old laurels 
(bay trees), fusticia Adhatoda; Prumis Laurocerasus , 
cherry laurel; Taxus baccata , yew; Cupressus sem- 
pervirens , Thuja occidentalism mulberries, white and 
black, almonds and myrtles; the last three dying in 
1890, in spite of every care to prolong their existence. 
A hop-garden was laid out by Linne at the wish 
of the Consistory near the university building, for 
brewing; elsewhere he advocated tree-planting. In 
1710, for the first time in Uppsala a plan was 
suggested of establishing a natural history museum, 
when Dr. Lars Roberg stated that among other ways 
of benefiting the academic hospital, he had the idea 
of arranging the articles presented to him in a museum 
or natural rarities room, to which Librarian Benzelius 
would contribute the gigantic bones from Dr. O. 
