Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-25

Dalecarlia, In northern Sweden, where he
assayed metals and did odd jobs at the
mines, and fell in love with the daughter
of DR.. Moraeus, the parish physician. By
the assistance of his future father-in-law
he went to Holland, where the rich burgh
ers were cutivating rare plants, and OBJ
tanned employment with a banker named
Cliffort who had a magnificent country
seat, a garden and Conservatives near the
city of HARLEM. Linnaeus remained in
charge of them for several years, in the
pleting several of his most important
botanical works. His patron sent him to
England to study the gardens and herb
ariums there, and he made the acquaint-
ance of all the prominent British botanists.
He visited Paris also, and learned the
theories and methods of the French gar
deners, who were more advanced than any
others, and finally he returned to Sweden,
married the daughter of DR.. Moraeus to
whom he had been betrothed for several
years. and established himself in Stock
holm as a physician. Within a year his
ability was recognized, and he was elected
president Of the Royal Academy.
Succeeded His Old Enemy.
The chair of botany in the faculty at
Upsala was the height of his ambition
and he attained it in 1741 upon the retire
ment of his old enemy, Prof. Rosen. He
soon made that department Of science in
the University of Sweden famous through
from all of the five continents to receive his
instruction. Strangers were attracted to
Upsala to see Lnnaeus and hear him lee
ture. Distinctions of all kinds were be-
slowed upon him by foreign nations, as
we'll as his own; he was elevated to the
rank of noble and took the title of Won
Lime; all the learned bodies of Europe
elected him to membership and he received
invitations from several of the great uni
versites to join their faculties. His books
hyot, h irV, ND in o.
the last twenty years of his life he was
able to live in luxury, and to crafty his
artistic tastes. He purchased fine coun-
try seat at Hammarby, near Upsala, where
he accumulated the library and formed the
herbarfum which are now in London.
Unhappy Domestic Life.
His domestic life, however, was very un-
happy. His wife was uncongenial. She
had no sympathy with his ambitions; she
took no interest in his researches; she
scorned his associations, and gave herself
up to frivolity and dissipation. She was
notorious throughout Sweden, and finally
was denied admission to the court. She
had five children, one of whom, Elizabeth
Christina Linnaeus, inherited much of her
fathers genius and made several impor-
tant experiments in plant life One of the
cessor at the university, but did nothing out
of the ordinary. The other members of
the family did not distinguish themselves
in any way except in initiating the disso-
lutte habits of their mother, and Linnaeus
Quarreled with them all. He is said to have
been a man of amable temper in his youth
full days, but after his marriage he became
irritable and into,erant. This transforma-
ton is attributed to his disappointment In
the character and anxiety concerning the
behavior of his wife, but some of his
critics have taken the opposite view of
their relations and have insisted that his
unhaDDln6SS vanity
selfishness and to his arbitrary treatment