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24 The Floral King.
greatest botanical authority at the Universities of
Scandinavia until the advent of Linnzeus.
It was in order to avail himself of the study of
these learned works and famous herbarium, that
Carl Linnzus, in 1728, changed to the University
of Upsala. But the also famous Professor Olof
Rudbeck, Funior, was already old, and had ceased
lecturing on Botany and Natural History, and
living much within himself, was almost inacces-
sible to strangers.
To this disappointment for Linnzeus was added
his great stress of poverty, for he only possessed
the small sum of money of 100 daler in silver
(about £2), the last help his father could bestow
on him, and he had no prospect of obtaining a
situation as tutor in a private family—which was.
a customary means by which poor students sus-
tained themselves while studying at the University
—for he had chosen medicine as a profession,
and that branch had very little honour in those
days, even at Upsala. He was compelled to get
into debt to procure himself food, and became
so reduced in circumstances that he could not
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