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The Floral King. 183
Von Haller in Géttingen charged Linnzeus with
presumptuous pride. ‘‘This man,” he said, ‘ con-
siders himself to be the second Adam, and gives all
animals names, each according to its kind, without
caring the slightest what his predecessors have done
in that respect.”
When busying himself in his beloved botanical
garden Linnzeus said, ‘‘he felt happier than a King
of Persia.” And great must have been his joy when
all the treasures of Natural History came pouring
in from many distant lands, as tributes to his genius
and learning; for to Upsala came birds and insects,
monkeys and fishes from the tropics, while Siberia
sent specimens of its furry inhabitants, and the
arctic seas of their whales and seals. He must
have enjoyed to the full to see himself so loved and
admired by all, and the gratification of having
created such a general interest in Natural History,
that almost everyone had become enamoured of the
subject, and ladies, as well as kings and queens, and
learned professors, began to form collections of their
own. It must also have gratified him to see the
Queen Lovisa Ulrica, herself an acknowledged great
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