HAMMARBY AT PRESENT DAY 331 
stuff, pieces of Chinese porcelain with trails of 
Linncza , his doctor’s hat and red velvet skull-cap, and 
much besides. Turning into the narrow path which 
threads among the boulders to the museum, rosettes 
of Sempervwum globiferum on the mossy stones are 
found, with scions of a Finland beam-tree, S or bus 
fennica , dead fifty years before. On the little 
museum building may be seen in the corners of the 
walls, inserted porcelain plates on which the Linnean 
coat-of-arms are burnt, many of which, some decades 
ago, being loosened from the walls and stolen. In¬ 
side the museum are now only a few empty cupboards, 
a low bookcase with volumes from Linne’s library 
at the Academy of Science, 260 of which were re¬ 
turned to Sweden in 1894, from the Linnean Society 
of London, as not pertaining to natural history, and 
from the roof is suspended a dried fish, Regalecus 
glesne , probably sent by Bishop N. C. Friis from 
Trondhjem. The whole imparts a feeling of vener¬ 
ation. One feels treading on classic ground, and can 
only with astonishment reflect that from this little 
insignificant spot, light was once spread over the 
whole field of natural research; that it was hither 
from all parts of the world that students came to 
hear from the master’s own lips words of wisdom, 
to be cherished by them all their lives. 
