his father as the head of Practical Medicine at Uppsala. His promotion to professor -- without taking exams or defending a thesis -- caused resentment among his colleagues.

His work was modest in comparison to that of his father. His best-known work is the Supplementum Plantarum systematis vegetabilium of 1781, which contains botanical descriptions by the elder Linnaeus and his colleagues, edited and with additions by the son.

He took a two-year trip to England,

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