sculptures had been discovered.

I rode to the ruins, and found that a wall and the remains of an
entrance had been reached. The wall proved to be one side of a chamber.
By following it, we reached an entrance, formed by winged human-headed
bulls, leading into a second hall. In a month nine halls and chambers
had been explored. In its architecture the newly discovered edifice
resembled the palaces of Nimroud and Khorsabad. The halls were long and
narrow, the walls of unbaked brick and panelled with sculptured slabs.

The king whose name is on the sculptures and bricks from Kouyunjik was
the father of Esarhaddon, the builder of the south-west palace at
Nimroud, and the son of Sargon, the Khorsabad king, and is now generally
admitted to be Sennacherib.

By the middle of the month of June my labours in Assyria drew to a
close. The time assigned for the excavations had been expended, and
further researches were not contemplated for the present. I prepared,
therefore, to turn my steps homeward after an absence of many years. The
ruins of Nimroud had been again covered up, and its palaces were once
more hidden from the eye.

CAROLUS LINNAEUS

A Tour in Lapland

_I.--A Wandering Scientist_

Carolus Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish naturalist, was
born at Rashult on May 23, 1707. At school his taste for
botany was encouraged, but after an unsatisfactory
academic career his father decided to apprentice him to a
tradesman. A doctor called Rothmann, however, recognised
and fostered his scientific talents, and in 1728, on
Rothmann's advice, he went to Upsala and studied under the
celebrated Rudbeck. In 1732 he made his famous tour in
Lapland. He gives a fascinating account of this journey in
"A Tour in Lapland" ("Lachesis Lapponica"), published in
1737. In 1739 he was appointed a naval physician, and in
1741 became professor of medicine at the University of
Upsala, but in the following year exchanged his chair for
that of botany. To Linnaeus is due the honour of having
first enunciated the true principles for defining genera
and species, and that honour will last so long as biology
itself endures. He found biology a chaos; he left it a
cosmos. He died on January 10, 1778. Among his published
works are "Systema Naturae," "Fundamenta Botanica," and the
"Species Plantarum."

Having been appointed by the Royal Academy of Sciences to travel through
Lapland for the purpose of