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the attentions which were due to the son of Linnaeus, 

 and passed the winter among a circle of learned 

 and ingenious persons. In the spring of 17^2, he 

 visited Holland, where he inspected the gardens 

 and museums, and received, as in England and 

 France, the most valuable contributions to his col- 

 lections. He next proceeded to Hamburg, from 

 whence he went to Kiel to visit his friend Fa- 

 bricius, the great entomologist. At Copenhagen 

 he experienced the same respectful kindness as in 

 the other great cities. In January 1783, he went to 

 Gottenburg, to render his homage of gratitude to 

 Baron Alstroemer, and in February retui-ned to 

 Upsal. 



By this journey he had increased his knowledge, 

 established useful connexions, collected many va- 

 luable specimens, and emancipated himself from 

 the state of listlessness into which he had previously 

 fallen. Hopes were entertained that he might prove 

 a worthy successor to the legislator of natural his- 

 tory ; and there is no reason to doubt that he would 

 at least have acquitted himself honourably in the 

 discharge of his duties. 



But in the month of August he had occasion to go to 

 Stockholm, where he was seized with a bilious fever, 

 which, however, soon abated, so that he was able 

 to return home. There he experienced a relapse ; 

 and having imprudently exposed himself to the cold 

 and damp of the apartment in which his collections 

 were kept, a third accession of fever came on, ac- 

 companied with apoplexy, which carried him off on 

 the ist of November 1783, in the forty-second year 

 of his age. 



He is said to have possessed a vigorous frame of 



