ij6 f RAVELLING PUPILS OF LINN^US. 



peflations of his country, but he was not to reap the reward of his 

 toils. The burning heat of the sandy deserts of Arabia had affefted his 

 lungs ; he reached Smyrna in a state of illness, in which he languished 

 for some time, and died February 9, 1752, in the 30th year of his 

 age. 



The fruits of his travels were, however, preserved through the libe- 

 rality of a great princess. He had been obliged to contraft debts. 

 The Turks, therefore, seized upon all his colleftions and threatened to 

 expose them to public sale. The Swedish Consul prevented it. He 

 sent with the intelligence of the unhappy exit of his countryman, an 

 account of the distresses under which he died ; — and at the represen- 

 tation of Dean B^ck, Queen Louisa Ulrica granted the sum of 

 14,000 dollars in copper-specie, to redeem all his colleftions*. They 

 arrived afterwards in .good preservation at Stockholm, consisting of a 

 great quantity of antiques, Arabian manuscripts, shells, birds, ser- 

 pents, insefls. Sec. and were kept in the cabinets at Ulrichsdale and 

 Drottningholm. The specimens of the natural curiosities of these mu- 

 seums being double or treble in number, Linn^us obtained some 

 of them, and published the voyage of r,is ill-fated friend t, and 

 honoured his memory with a plant which he called from his name 

 Hasselquistia. 



The plan which Linn/eus had first proje6led, and which Hassel^ 

 QuisT on account of his illness was not able to execute alone, was 

 soon after revived by a German. Professor Mich^lis of Goettingen, 

 one of the greatest adepts in the Eastern languages, who from the great 



* See the introduflion to the Flora Palasstina, in the Amoenitat. Acad. vol. iv. 

 t Fred. Hasselquist Iter Palestinum, Stockholm, 1757, 8vo. 



respeft 



