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lege of Phyficians — Motives of his preferment — Death of the father of 

 Linnccus. 141 



SECTION VIII. 



EXCURSIONS OF THE NORTHERN LITERATI.— HISTORY OF THE 

 TRAVEELING PUPILS OF LINN J" US. 



Extensive sphere of the operations of Linnaus — The unhappy destiny of Na- 

 turalists — Patriotic exertions — Opportunities of travelling for the pupils of 

 L'lnnaus — Count Tess'tn — The East-India Company at Gothemburg — Tern- 

 stroem, the first itinerant pupil of L'lnnaus — His tragical end-^i^. Hasselquist's 

 Travels in Palestine ; dies at Smyrna — Preservation of his colleflions — 

 Narrative of his Travels — P. Forskal travels with Niebuhr and the rest of 

 the Danish Society in Arabia — His fatal end — His last Letter to Linnaus — 

 Peter Loejimg goes as Botanist to Madrid, and thence to America — Dies in 

 the flower of youth — J. P. Falk-, tutor to the younger Linnaus^ goes to 

 Russia — Shoots himself at Casan — Bjoer?ntahl dies at Salonichi — More for- 

 tunate peregrinating pupils of Linnaus — Toren — Osbeck — C. P. Thunberg — 

 Dr. Colander — Sparrman — The two latter sail round the world — The fame 

 and name of Linnaus are spread all over the globe — He has even a disciple 

 among the Mahometans — Disciples of Linnaus travelling through Europe — 

 Disciples of Linnaus in Germany — Schreber — Fabricius — Gieseke — Ehrhart— 

 Special allegations — Anecdotes — Ferber — Murray — Linnaus' s peculiar mode 

 of honouring- liis friends and other men of merit — Names of plants — Baron 

 Haller's critique on that subjeft. I/l 



SECTION IX. 



REM JRKABLE EVENTS OF THE LIFE OF LINNAUS, FROM 1750 TILL 



1760. 



Linnisus describes the Natural Cabinet of Count Tessin — Ulrica Louisa, Queen 

 of Sweden — Her extraordinary love of Nature — Establishment of the Royal 

 Cabinets of Natural History at Ulricsdale and Drottningholm — / innaus 

 arranges and desciibes them — Is attacked with the gout — cures that disorder 



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