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left published accounts of their discoveries. Hasselquis! 

 explored Syria, Egypt and Palestine. Forsk§.l accom^ 

 panied Carsten Niebuhr to Arabia and Egypt. Sparrmai 

 travelled in Kaffirland, and shared Captain Cook's secon( 

 or antarctic voyage. Thunberg visited the Cape, Java,' 

 Deshima (in the harbour of Nagasaki, where the Dutch 

 had been permitted to establish a small factory) and 

 Ceylon. Kalm, after whom the Kalmia is named, spent 

 three years in studying the botany of North America. 

 Solander is remembered as the companion of Cook 3.n(jta| j 

 Banks. ™ 



The old age of Linnaeus was sweetened by prosperity 

 and honour. He became wealthy, according to the 

 standard of professors, and was able to spend part oflj 

 the year in a pleasant country-house at Linne'i^ 

 Hammarby, a few miles to the south-east of Upsala. 

 Here, amidst boulders and pine-woods, which a little 

 resemble those of his native Smaland, he built himself I 

 a handsome dwelling, with a summer-house or garden- 

 study in the grounds. Many a naturalist has ridden 

 out from Upsala to see the place, which is kept up, as 

 nearly as may be, in the same state as when the grealBj 

 naturalist died there. Every mark of distinction which 

 is thought appropriate to a man of learning was bestowed 

 upon him by his university, his sovereign and his nation. 

 Gout troubled him, but he kept it off by a diet of wild 

 strawberries. His powers began to fail at sixty, and 

 paralysis followed, but he was able to work almost to 

 the last. He died in 1778 at the age of seventy. His 

 son was made professor in his stead, but was unable to 

 maintain the dignity of so great a name ; he died in 

 1783 at the age of forty-one. Thunberg then filled the 

 chair with greater distinction. The eldest of the four 

 daughters of Linnaeus, Elizabeth Christina, published a 



