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230 The Floral King.
testament speaks of as being worth twice as much
as all else together, his mother thought that in
consideration of all this, young Carl ought not also
to share in the division of real property, together
with his mother and sisters. It is this which gave
birth to the obloquy. But that Linnzus stipulated
that his grand Herbarium should be sold to the
highest bidder for the benefit of his daughters, is
much more open to a question, the justice of which
might still be mooted, for in Linnzus’s supplication
to the government for his son to inherit the pro-
fessorial chair of Botany, the ever just and clear
sighted Linneus distinctly says that his son was
to inherit his library and ail his collections, including
the famous grand Herbarium, valued 100,000 dal.
and in consideration of all this, Carl von Linné,
junior, did obtain the appointment.
That this great Herbarium was afterwards willed
away to the daughters was incontestibly a grievous
fault, and can only be accounted for by the feeble
condition, approximate to senility, in which Linnzus
is said to have been at the time of his making his
will, and during the last years of his life.
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