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LINNAEUS 
desire who has all he wants, though it is impossible 
for it to continue. So many stones, which are in his 
collection, so many plants in his herbarium and garden, 
so many insects which he collected and set on pins, 
so many fishes which he had glued on paper like 
plants, all besides his own library, were his pastime.” 
A description of the house may be given; on the 
walls were hung the portraits of the two Rudbecks, 
so lifelike, that they could not be excelled, two worthy 
predecessors, beside drawings of the greatest botanists, 
Tournefort, Ray, Morison, Rivinus, Vaillant, Boer- 
haave, Burman, Plukenet, Breynius, Columella, 
Jungermann, Koenig, Simon Paulli, Camerarius, 
Tilli, C. Bauhin, Sloane. It is known that at first the 
family had the ground floor, and part of the first floor, 
the other rooms being used as a museum, and for 
private lectures. In the corner room towards the 
garden, he had his library where he worked, and where 
he could also keep a watchful eye on the workmen and 
the visitors in the garden. As the family increased, 
and more room was wanted, the museum was moved 
to the orangery, even the mineral collection finding 
its place there. This was done by leave of the Con¬ 
sistory, who stipulated that it should not be mixed with 
the University collection. 
As to the arrangements in the house, Linne did 
not trouble himself, his time not permitting any inter¬ 
ference ; therefore he regarded it as God’s gracious gift 
that he had a wife who kept house while he worked. 
In the course of years she altered considerably, both 
in appearance and disposition. The smart lively 
young wife became a big, corpulent, rough matron, 
with coarse features. During her early years in 
Uppsala, she seems to have devoted herself to enjoy¬ 
ment, had dances in her house and, above all, was 
addicted to card-playing. When Linne was absent 
in Stockholm, nearly every evening there was a card- 
party, including the wife of Professor Klingenstierna 
and Magister Berge Frondin, when the play became 
