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made by so great a man, was instantly complied with, Magnus La- 

 GERSTROEM, a great lover of natural history, was then direftorof that 

 company, and the academy of StockJiolm afterwards received him as 

 one of its members. He gratified every wish of Linnaeus; took 

 the young travellers under his special proteftion, and charged the cap- 

 tains of the ships to serve them whenever they found an opportunity. 

 Lagers I B OEM even brought it so far, that they could purchase natural 

 curiosities in China at the company's own expence*. 



The first of the pupils of Linn^t-us, who profited by this oppor- 

 tunity to visit a remote part of the world, was C, Ternstoem, 

 a young man who seemed to be born to colle£l natural cu- 

 riosities. In 1745 he embarked at Gothenhurgh for China; but fell 

 a viftim 10 the climate, even before he could reach the place of his 

 destination. He died at Poulicandor, towards the close of 1745. 



Soon after Linn.-eus became the instrument of a second voyage. 

 He represented in his leftures, in the most eloquent and persuasive man- 

 ner, the extraordinary merits and great celebrity which a young stu- 

 dent might obtain by travelling through Palestine, and by enquiring 

 into and describing the natural history of that country, which was tilt 

 then unknown, and had become of the greatest importance to interpret 

 the bible, and to understand eastern philology. This certainly was an 



* Regis Cancellariae, sinuil regiae tunc temporis Scientiariim Academias Prxses, Comes 

 Tessin, cum Societate Indica convenit, ut quotannis cum navibus liceret mittere jxiveneni, 

 naturEE sacris initiatum, in Indian, Societatis hujus impensis ; quod, quamvis ab initio insuetum 

 facile tamen evenit, opere et favore nostri M. Lag e rstroem, qui non niodo sumiiio fa- 

 vore amplexus est ejusmodi natura; curiosos, sed in mandatis dedit navium gubernatoribus, 

 ut his inservirent, quacunque liceret regione, ut finem obtinerent propositum ; ininio quod 

 magis est, jussit Socetati subjeftos socios, suis propriis inipensis emere, quacunque ip China 

 cccunerent singularia ad locupletandanrt Scientiam piTctantissimam. Amxnitates Academics, 

 Vol. vi. Edit. Schreber^ p. 23*. 



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