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trifling compared with thofe of Gmelin, who {pent 10 years, viz. from 
1733 to 43 in Siberia.. His Flora Sibirica, now increafed to four 
volumes quarto, with an immenfe number of figures, and excellent 
defcriptions and fynonyms, is one of the beft works of the kind, 
and contains many very rare plants. Philip Frederick, the brother 
of this author, has written O#ia Botanica and fome other things. 
Samuel Gottlicb Gmelin, fon of the laft mentioned, is celebrated 
for his hiftory of the genus Fucus, printed at Peterfburg in 1768. 
The expedition of Ternftroem, one of the firft of Linnzus's 
difciples whom the fpirit of curiofity led to vifit countries far 
remote from his own, was an unfortunate one. This young man 
undertook a voyage to China in 1745, but died at Poulicandor. 
We have no hiftory of his voyage. His memory is honoured 
with a plant in the Supplementum Plantarum at the inftigation of 
Mutis, for Linnæus himfelf had not an high opinion of his merit. 
Kalm, who vifited North America in 1747, was more fortunate. 
His travels are fo well known, from the account of them tranflated 
into Englifh, that I need fay little about them. His botanical dif- - 
coveries very materially enriched the Species Plantarum of his 
great mafter, and the Linnzan Herbarium abounds with fpeci- 
mens brought home by him, diftinguifhed by the letter K. His 
own colleétion of dried plants is faid to be mouldering away in 
Sweden, in 
« The lumber garret of his wi/er heir.” 
Haffelquift vifited Egypt and the Holy Land in 1749. No one 
has {hewn greater zeal or activity than this ingenious young man, 
whofe premature death cannot be too much regretted. He was 
alike fkilful i in zoology and botany, as the account of his travels 
publifhed by Linnæus, and fince tranflated into Englifh, fufficiently 
fhews. In vain has an invidious author, who has himfelf long en- 
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