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SECTION VI. 



Travelling Pupils of Lmntsus. 



Enthusiasm excited by the Lectures of'Linnasus — Ternstroem dies 

 on his Voyage to China — Hasselquist, after travelling in Eg-ypt, 

 Arabia, and Palestine, dies at Smyrna — Forskal perishes in Ara- 

 bia; Lcefling in South America; Falk in Tartary — Kalm sent to 

 Canada ; Rolander to Surinam ; Toren to Malabar ; Osbeck to 

 China— Sparrmann travels in the Cape, and accompanies Cook on 

 his second Voyage — Thunberg visits Japan, Ceylon, and other 

 Countries — Various parts of Europe visited by Pupils of Lin- 

 naeus — Remarks on tlie Accumulation of P'acts produced by their 

 Exertions. 



The enthusiasm excited by the lectures and de- 

 monstrations of Linnaeus, seems to have exceeded 

 that produced by the efforts of any other professor. 

 The fervour of the teacher, his ardent love of na- 

 ture, his eloquence, and the kindliness of his dis- 

 position, made an indelible impression upon his 

 pupils, many of whom were anxious to devote their 

 lives to the extension of their favourite science. 

 Upsal became the centre of botanical, if not of zoo- 

 logical knowledge ; and while students flocked to it 

 from all parts of Europe, there were proceeding 

 from it those whom we may call the devoted heroes 

 of science, and who were resolved to enlarge its 

 boundaries, by exploring regions previously unknown 

 to the natural historian. An account of these men 

 belongs in some measure to the life of their mas- 

 ter, in which it will form an interesting episode. 



