14 A PLEASING ANECDOTE.

It has been said that the poetical allusions and
the elegancies of style observable in the writings
of Linneus, have done as much to recommend the
study of botany, and to establish his own celebrity,
as his more serious labours. Be this as it may, it
is indisputable that to the influence exerted by this
great genius is owing much of the proficiency of
the Swedish nation in the study of natural history.
‘“In Sweden,” says Sir J. E. Smith, when recom-
mending natural science to the rising generation,
‘natural history 1s the study of the schools, by
which men rise to preferment;” and that most
entertaining of travellers, Dr Clarke, has borne
testimony to the zeal with which he found this
branch ef science pursued by men of various classes
in that country. He has related a pleasing anec-
dote in point, which will not, perhaps, be inappro-
priate here. Arrived at Tornea, at the northern
extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia, Dr Clarke sent
to the apothecary of the place for a few jars of the
conserved dwarf Arctic raspberry. He had observed
“this rare plant” in the woods, near the shore
where he landed, and found it bearing the first
ripe fruit he had seen upon it. The flavour of its
berries he thought finer even than that of the hant-
boy strawberry, and equal in size to those of our
common raspberry-trees ; but the “ plant so diminu-
tive that an entire tree, with all its branches,