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ought to have inherited. However, a stimulus was 

 thereby imparted which roused him from his lethar- 

 gy, and he began in earnest to discharge the duties 

 that were imposed upon him, among which were 

 the arrangement of his father's papers, and the 

 superintendence of new editions of several of his 

 works. A third mantissa or supplement to the Sys- 

 tema Vegetabilium, left in manuscript by Linnaeus, 

 and enlarged by his son, was published at Bruns- 

 wick in 1781, under the care of Ehrhart. 



The young lecturer had long been desirous of tra- 

 velling, but during his father's life had found it 

 impossible to gratify his inclination. Being now his 

 own master, he prepared to visit the principal coun- 

 tries of Europe ; and, as Thunberg had been appoint- 

 ed demonstrator of botany, the government granted 

 him permission. Want of money, however, pre- 

 sented an obstacle ; to overcome which he found it 

 necessary to borrow a sum of his friend Baron 

 Alstrosmer, to whom he resigned his juvenile her- 

 barium in pledge. At London, where he arrived 

 in I\Iay 1781, he was received with enthusiasm, 

 and treated with every possible attention by his 

 father's friends and correspondents, especially Sir 

 Joseph Banks, in whose house he principally re- 

 sided. Here he occupied himself in preparing se- 

 veral works, such as a System of the Mammalia, 

 and a Treatise on the Liliaceae and Palms ; but an 

 attack of jaundice interrupted his pursuits, and his 

 happiness was further diminished by the death of 

 his friend Solander. 



On recovering from his illness, he proceeded to 

 Paris in the end of August, accompanied by M. 

 Broussonet. In that capital he was loaded with all 



