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The Floral King. 229
not be enabled to travel, and develop his art to the
highest possible degree, for such men form epochs in
our era.”
In some of the many foreign biographies of
Linnzus has been reiterated an unpleasant account
of his wife, which one of his pupils had spread
about, that the genial Linnzus should have been
mastered by his wife, and to such a degree, that she
had forced him to commit a great injustice to their
son, and who, it was said, was hated by his unnatural
mother. It is to be regretted that this calumny has
been perpetuated in print, but it was fortunate that
the family whom it concerned, knew of nothing but
the happiest home life of concord and harmony.
Carl von Linné, Funior suffered already in his youth
from hypochondria. His mother, who managed the
entire economy of the house, thought that, considering
he at very young years had got a salary from the
government, and had secured the professorial chair
of Botany for the future, and his father had willed
his great and valuable library, and all his great col-
lections, with the exception of the botanical one, to
his son as his successor, which Linnzus himself in his
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