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40 The Floral King.
of which Gustavus Vasa and Charles IX. com-
plained, and from which every eminent Swede of
both sexes has suffered much.
Nils Rosén, adjunctus in anatomy and botany,
returned in 1731 to Upsala, from two years foreign
travel, with senior claims to assume the vicariate
of lecturing in these branches, instead of the aged
professor. The result of this opposition in the first
instance was that Linneus resigned his situation
as tutor to Rudbeck’s sons. However, a new vista
opened to him, for he had often heard spoken in
Rudbeck’s house of the journey which the pro-
fessor’s father, Olof Rudbeck, senior, had undertaken
some thirty-seven years previously, to the northern
Swedish province of Lapland. He had seen some
of the interesting results in the fine drawings of
birds before referred to, but which was almost all
that remained, for the notes and preliminary work
had been destroyed in a great fire which raged in
Upsala in 1704, that town, as most Swedish towns
to this day, being principally built of wood. The
‘*‘Royal Society of Science” had again turned its
attention to Lapland, which province, although not
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