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(1888) [MARC] Author: Albert Alberg
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The Floral King. 87

pitable employer, on crossing one of the many
canals of the Dutch town, he mistook his way in
the darkness, that prevailed, and fell into the water,
where he found his early grave, in that element the
inhabitants of which had been the objects of his
scientific researches. Two days afterwards Linnzus
learned the sad fate of his much-loved friend, and
hastened to secure the manuscripts, regarding
which the two had had such strange presentiment, |
but Artedi’s landlord had sequestered them for debt.
In this emergency poor Linnzus, who knew that
money could not for very long, if at all, be obtained
from Sweden to redeem them, had no other resource
but to turn to his patron; and noble Clifford, with-
out a murmur, paid the required money, and the
valuable ichthyological manuscripts were saved,
and afterwards, under Linnzus’ auspices, published
in Leyden, 1738, by which Linnzus secured his
poor friend Artedi’s name in this particular branch
of science.

For Artedi’s works, which required to be clearly
copied, Linnzus employed a needy young Swede,

come to take his degree in Leyden, and whose

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