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" Clusius, an enthusiast equally unfortunate, was thrown into irons, 

 "and robbed of all his treasures in Barbary; Guillandini was 

 " taken by pirates; the Dutch Consul Rumf died blind in the island 

 " of Amboyna, where he preferred his toils to all the wealth of the uni- 

 " verse; Lippi v/as murdered in the wilds of Ethiopia; Steller 

 " fell a viftim to his exertions in Siberia; Gmelin was thrown into 

 " a dungeon by the Tartars; Lowitz impaled; Scheuchzer left all 

 " the conveniences of life to gather grasses, exposed a thousand 

 " dangers, on the Alps; Tournefort exchanged the luxuries of Paris 

 « to range through the wilds of Turkey ; a Banks, aFoRsxER, and 



other cotemporaries are equal to, nay they excel Tournefort in 

 " point of enthusiasm ; because they exchanged smiling fortune at home 

 " with the threatenining dangers of foreign climes, in barbarous and 

 "unknown regions; Run beck lost his colleftions in the fire of 

 " Upsal, and died of a broken heart; Plumier suffered shipwreck; 



Bannister was hurled headlong down a rock in Virginia; Barelli, 

 " Micheli, Donati, Vaillant and others, without number, fell a 

 " sacrifice to their scientific exertions in natural history." 



The pupils of Li n n ^ u s augmented the number of viflims of science. 

 We shall begin with those whose ill-fated career deserves most to be 

 lamented. 



Sweden stands indebted to Count Tessin for the preservation of the 

 great professor at Upsal ; likewise for the numerous peregrinations of 

 his pupils. The patriotic disposition of many of his fellow-citizens, 

 imitated afterwards his example. He reque sted of the Swedish East- 

 India Company at Gothenhiirgh, to let every year a young naturalist 

 make a voyage to India in their ships, free from expence ; a request 



made 



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