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The Floral King. 231
His wife may, or she may not, have clearly under-
stood that to secure his son’s appointment his father
had distinctly promised that the future professor of
of Botany should inherit the Herbarium as well.
This ultimately led to his valuable collection be-
coming through puchase the possession of Dr. J. E.
Smith, who presented it to the Linnean Society in
London, 1788, of which he was the first President.
Linneus never dreamt that this Herbarium would
be lost to Sweden, nor would it ever have been, had
not the petty jealousy of Thunberg, his old disciple,
prevented the purchase by the Swedish government
or the University of Upsala.
Unfortunately Gustavius III. was at this par-
ticular period at the baths of Pisa in Italy, or this
sale, which afterwards justly has been reckoned a
national calamity, had never been allowed to take
place. The king, on hearing of the fate of the
grand Herbarium, immediately dispatched a man-
of-war to overtake the vessel in which it was
brought to England, but the expedition mis-carried,
and thus London to-day boasts of possessing
Linnzus’s grand botanical collection.
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