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The Floral King. III
he said, ‘your petition has been granted by
the Diet.’”
For the 1oo ducats it became Linnzus’ duty to
lecture during the winter about the mineral and
geological collections in the capital; during the
summer months to lecture in Botany, the locale of
which was assigned to no less an honoured place
than the House of Nobles.
In 1739, Linneus, through the intercession of
Count Tessin, was also appointed physician to the
“ Royal Admiralty.”
The great Count Tessin became his patron, and
gave Linnzus for a free residence, those of his own
apartments which he had lived in before his
marriage, and Linnzus also daily dined with the
Count, at whose table he met many of the great and
influential men of the Republican period. His
practice was now so great, that he alone had more
to-do than all the other physicians of the capital
together, and his yearly income rose to “9,000 daler
copper-coin.” He then thought the time had come
for him to complete his good fortune by marrying
his beloved and faithful Sara Lisa Morea, and that
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