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siderable than could have been wished the DESIGN was
abandoned; and he even on the point of being
reduced to the condition of shoemaker when il was
at length determined, at the earnest solicitation of
kothman Physician in a neighborng town. that he |
should study medicine. With this gentleman, who
kindly took him into his family, and furnished him
with the means OF instruction, he spent three years
ana after about twevemonh more spent at the Uni
verslty OF Lund where the learned professor Stobeus
became his oracle and PATRON he went to Upsal and
entered upon course of more advanced study dI-
ring which he had to struggle with all those dscour-
i9einents and harslps which extreme poverty brings
along with It, Having at length, however, recon-
mended himself to the notice of Celsius Professor of
DIVINITY, and the younger Rudbeck, at that time Pro
lessor OF Botany he was, by their good offices brought
forward to notice and being sent in 1892 at the ex-
pense of the academy of science, to Lapand he had
an opportunity of giving the first proof in public |
way OF his uncommon zeal and ability natural
ISL and we find him at this early period exploring the
hidden wonders of creation, in these dreary regions
and with boyish activity scaling the most dangerous
sleeps, II but bunch of snple attracted his
attention. Alter having travelled through that coun-
Try Tor several MONTHS in the true spirit of discovery,
and with no small risk to himself, he returned with
large fund OF information, the Botanical part of which
ne gave some account of in the Transactions of the
Academy Tor the years 1873 and 1884, and afterwards
published more at large in his :" Flora Lapponica'
lie had already renounced the method of Tourne-
Tort, lls original guide in botany, and fixed upon the
ieadlng principles of his system for so early as
tlle summer of 1880 he had written an essay which
excited considerable degree of attention in the Uni
Versity on the sexes OF plants. And in lectures which
ne read publicly the same year, for Professor Rud-
DECK, as well as III communications which he made
afterwards to the Academy of Science at Stockholm
he gave still farther limitations of the change in his
way OF thinking. Being now by the liberality of
DR. George Cliifort, of Amsterdam placed in situa
ton much to his wish, and feeling mpeled by no
common motives, he set himself with the most perse
venng zeal to complete what he had begun, bv d
costing and bringing forward to notice the whole of
that scheme for reforming the science, which he had
been some years projecting The object which he
proposed to himself, besides stating and exempiyinp
his classflcations, founded the NUMBER proportion
and situation of the sexual parts of plants was three
iold to improve the Technology, to establish the
genera on characters taken from the flower and fruit
only, with the addition of new names where the old
were thought faulty and to reform the species, by
ixng them also on better principles, and assigning to
tem trivial names instead of those cumbersome def
hnons by which they We're formerly known. And
win these improvements in his eye, he accordingly
proceeded In 1856, to complete and publish the Fun
damenta Botanical" a small treatise containing the
general outline of his reformed system.
In the beginning of the following year. he favored
the public with the genera plantarum,'' work into
which ne introduced his intended improvements in the
nomenclature and distribution of the genera and i
snort while afterwards he added the Critica Boan
ca: which was designed to show the nature and pro-
Wuaak Al.