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THROUGH SWEDEN. Y4l
number of plants does not exceed one thoufand two hundred. It
was in the univerfity of Lund that Linnzus, under the counte-
nance and tuition of profeffor Stobieus, acquired his firft ideas of
his arrangements in natural hiftory; and he lived to fee his
favourite ftudy beginning to flourifh in that feminary, under the
influence of one of his own pupils. Before this dawn, we find
him in his writings exprefling his wonder, that in a fituation
much more favourable than that of Upfala, as being four degrees ~
more foutherly and wefterly, the garden of Lund had not rifen
to fome eminence. The univerfity was eftablithed in 1688, by
Charles XI. and called after his name—Academia Carolina Gotho-
rum. The profefforfhips are divided into four claffes or faculties :
- —Ift. Theology ; 2d. Jurifprudence ; 3d. Medicine ; 4th. Philo-
fophy: to which there has been added a fifth clafs of profeffors,
under the name of Arrium CuLttiorum Macisrrt,. or Profe/-
fors of the more elegant Accomplifhments, viz. of fencing, mufic,
dancing, and drawing. In theology there are three profeffors,
and two profeffors extraordinary, befides what they call two ma-
piftri docentes, or private teachers, whofe bufinefs it {eems to be,
not only to inftruct the ftudents in divinity and ecclefiaftical hif-
tory, and to expound to them fome portion annually of the facred
fcriptures, but alfo, in an eafy and familiar manner, to folve their
doubts by an explanation of any difficult point in the Bible, or
any Other fubje@t that the ftudents may with to have illuftrated.
In like manner the affiftant profeffors in the other faculties, in this
as well as in the other Swedith univerfities, are always ready to
anf{wer
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