HIS BENEFACTORS 
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her a drawing of a handsome, undescribed, exotic plant, 
to which he had affixed the name Carolina princeps , 
which immensely pleased her. In spite of this, the 
work soon stopped, presumably on account of its great 
cost; and the Princess died in Paris in 1783, at the 
age of thirty-two. 
Particularly helpful in furthering Linne’s plans 
with regard to the institutions, whose administrator 
they were, were the Chancellors of the University. 
The help of Count Carl Gyllenborg’s powerful in¬ 
fluence obtaining his chair at Uppsala has already been 
recorded (p. 196) as well as the help he gave in the 
matter of restoring the botanic garden and museum. 
Linn6 realized that in him he always had a steadfast 
supporter, and it was therefore with great grief that 
he learned of his patron’s fatal illness in 1746. Time 
after time he wrote to Back concerning him; but his 
condition becoming worse, Linne wrote, “ Almighty 
God help the good old man, who has done so much 
good to mankind. If the University should lose him, 
it will never have another Count Carl in our time, and 
hardly in our children’s,” and a month later he 
lamented, “ With the great Chancellor I have lost 
immeasurably.” He had dedicated to him during his 
life, “ Flora suecica,” and the second edition of it was 
dedicated to his memory nearly ten years after his 
death. 
Still more was he drawn to Count Anders Johan 
von Hopken, with whom he had close connection 
during his residence in Stockholm. Linne entertained 
a sort of veneration for him. “ If we only had him as 
Chancellor,” was his wish in 1753, and that desire was 
fulfilled in 1760. How he discharged his high function 
may be learned from this, that during his four years of 
office, Linne dedicated to him no fewer than three 
works, “ Fauna suecica,” 1761; “ Genera morborum,” 
1763; and “Genera plantarum,” Ed. VI., 1764; and 
he had previously dedicated “ Philosophia botanica ” 
to him on its issue. 
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