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The Floral King. 199
In his diary for 1771, for instance, he mentions
that he taught foreign students eight hours a day
in his museum, and he, by no means, confined
himself, only to this work.
Year 1774, Linneus had, what he himself calls,
his first warning of death, for he had a fit of
apoplexy while lecturing in the Botanical Gardens,
on the 3rd of May of that year. His subsequent
illness was also, this time, overcome, although very
slowly, and first at Christmas time he had mostly
regained his wonted strength. The main instrumen-
tality was a valuable gift, which, more potent than
any medicinal remedy, influenced him for the better.
The King, Gustavus III., had then sent him a col-
lection of herbs and natural history objects, which
had just arrived from Surinam, consisting of four
cart loads of plants gathered with blossoms and
fruit, and carefully preserved in several hogsheads
of spivitu vini. He got, as it were, new life from the
intense pleasure which he experienced in eagerly
arranging and describing, these rare plants during
Christmas-time, forgetting all about his ailings, and
in 1775 he felt himself quite hale and sound.
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