SECTION VIII. 



EXCURSIONS OF THE NORTHERN LITERATE— HISTORY 

 Of THE TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINN^US. 



EXTENSIVE SPHERE OF THE OPERATIONS OF LINN.tUS.— THE UNHAPPY DESTINY 

 OF NATURALISTS.— PATRIOTIC EXERTIONS.- OPPORTUNITIES OF TRAVELLING 

 FOR THE PUPILS OF LINNAUS.— COUNT TESSIN— THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 

 AT GOTHENBURGH.— TERNSTROEM, THE FIRST ITINERANT DISCIPLE OF LIN- 

 N.EUS.— HIS TRAGICAL END.— F. HASSELQUIST'S TRAVELS IN PALESTINE; DIES 

 AT SMYRNA.— PRESERVATION OF HIS COLLECTIONS.— NARRATIVE OF HIS 

 TRAVELS.— P. FORSKAL TRAVELS WITH NIEBUHR AND THE REST OF THE DA- 

 NISH SOCIETY IN ARABIA.— HLS MELANCHOLY END.— HIS LAST LETTER TO 

 LINN^US.— P. LCEFLING GOES AS BOTANIST TO MADRID, AND HENCE TO 

 AMERICA.— DIES IN THE FLOWER OF YOUTH.- J. P. FALK. TUTOR TO LIN- 



4iMVS, JUN. GOES TO RUSSIA.-SHOOTS HIMSELF AT CASAN.— BJOERNSTAHL 

 DIES AT SALONICHI.— MORE FORTUNATE PEREGRINATING DISCIPLES OF 

 LINN.EUS.— P. KALM'S VOYAGE TO NORTH AMERICA.— ACCOUNT OF THIS 

 VOYAGE.— TRAVELS OF ROLAN DER, TOREN, OSBECK, SPARRMANN, THE CHEVA- 

 LIER C. P. THUNBERG AND DR. SOL ANDER.— THE TWO LATTER SAIL ROUND THE 



"world.— THE NAME AND FAME OF LINX.EUS ARE SPREAD ALL OVER THE 

 GLOBE.— LINN.tUS HAS A DISCIPLE AMONG THE MAHOMETANS.— TRAVELLING 

 PUPILS OF LINN^US IN EUROPE.— DISCIPLES OF LINN.EUS IN GERMANY.— 

 FABRICIUS, SCHREBER, GIESEKE, EHRHART.— SPECIAL ALLEGATIONS.— ANEC- 

 DOTES.— FERBER AND THE CHEVALIER J. A. MURRAY.— LINN.EUS'S PECULIAR 

 mode' OF HONOURING HIS FRIENDS AND MEN OF MERIT.— NAMES OF PLANTS. 

 -BARON HALLER'S CRITIQUE ON THIS SUBJECT. 



I N NiEUS was of the number of those great men who exhibited 

 the most eloquent pifturc of the strength of the human powers and 

 endowments, and who proved by their own example, what the genius 

 iind activity of a single individual is capable to accomplish. Let us 



remember 



