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The Floral King. 19
learning, as a distant relative, Dr. Humerus, was
resident Dean of the ancient Cathedral of that town.
But the first sound that met our young traveller on
his arrival was the funeral knell of that reverend
man, who at that hour was being carried to his
grave. However, fortune befriended Carl, for he
met his old private tutor, Magister Hédk, and he
saved him from producing the humiliating school-
certificate, which no doubt would have been to
his detriment, and, instead, presented him for
matriculation at the University as being his own
private pupil.
Linneus boarded and lodged at the house of
Lector Kilian Stobzus, who lectured in the
University on natural history, geology and botany
and was aman of acknowledged profound learning
in these sciences, and who possessed a large private
collection of stones, shells, birds and dried herbs.
At. this house also lived a ‘German student of
medicine, David Samuel Koulas, eight years
Linnzus’s senior, who had the use of Stobzeus’s
library, and who took upon himself to secretly
lend his young comrade what books he required
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