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By his ready flow of language, and the happy 
manner in which he inculcated his ideas, rendered 
the students converts to his system, and made 
them as enthusiastic as himself. In like manner 
natural history: many of his pupils fell victims 
to the elements or to the diseases of a pestilential 
climate, but many returned, amply compensating 
themselves for the hardships they had under- 
gone. The generic names of the planis Osbeckia, 
Kalmia, Solandra, Alstroemeria, Loeflingia, be- 
stowed by their venerated preceptor, will recall 
the names of some of his pupils, and hand them 
down to posterity. 
A medal to this distinguished man was struck 
by some of his friends in 1746. He soon after re- 
ceived the rank and title of Archiator from the 
King, and was the only Swede chosen into the 
new-modeled Academy of Berlin. All these hon- 
ours however, though he was by no means indif- 
ferent to such, appear to have given him less 
delight at this time than the acquisition of the 
herbarium made by Hermann, in Ceylon, which 
an apothecary of Copenhagen had unknowingly 
possessed. When shown to Linnus he soon dis- 
covered to whom it had originally belonged, and 
rejoiced at recovering a treasure supposed to have 
