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202 The Floral King.
successor to his father as Professor of Botany. He
was only twenty-two years of age when, for the sake
of his father’s merits, he was promised the chair of
Botany after Linnzeus, and at eighteen he had been
nominated Botanices Demonstrator, an office which
was then created. Well nigh worn out, Linnzus
was much in need of rest, and he asked now for his
discharge, with permission to leave the Professorship
to his son. ‘‘No!” answered the King hurriedly
and with determination, “I will grant with pleasure
anything you may ask, Linné, but no resignment.”
With manifest displeasure the supplicant withdrew,
for he felt himself hurt, and did not care to hide his
feelings. . . . But what appeared a humiliation
was not meant to beso. The professorship was in
-every regard, except in name, confided to Carl von
Linné, junior, and the King declared that he, with
pleasure, conferred double salary, with the only
provision, that the far-famed name of Archiater
Linnzus still should be registered as one of the
teachers of the University, as if he were still
exercising his professorial duties.
Gustavus was fond of brilliant display, and he
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