i8o TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNvEUS. 



irated, and he returned to Up^al, where he published in the year i>j6z 

 his Planta Alstroemeria. In the following year the horizon of his fate 

 became somewhat more serene. Through the recommendation of Lin- 

 N /z u s he was called to Peter sburgh, to be inspector of the cabinet of 

 natural curiosities belonging to M. Kruse, first physician to the Em- 

 press of Russia, and counsellor of state. He suffered shipwrek at 

 Narva, and lost the best part of his eflFefts. In 1765 he was made pro- 

 fessor of the medical college and inspeftor of the botanical garden. 

 His unbounded passion for study had a very sinister influence upon 

 his health. He became subject to obstruftions in the abdomen, and 

 consequently to extreme fits of melancholy. He shot himself on his 

 last travels through the Russian empire, at Casan in Tartary, in the 

 night of the 20th of March 1774. Thus despair terminated the life of 

 a man who had been too great a slave to science ever to enjoy happi- 

 ness and snrial hilarity *. 



To the above ill-fated persons may be added the celebrated J. J. 

 BjOERNSTAHL. Hc Certainly made the Belles Lettres his chief study, 

 yet at the same time he had frequented the Linn^an le£lures upon na- 

 tural history. After twelve years peregrination he ended his career on 

 the 12th of July 1779, in the forty -ninth year of his age, at Solonichi in 

 Macedonia. The patriotism of his countrymen honoured his memory 

 by medals, and his tomb with a marble monument. 



These were the six pupils of Linn^us, the six ambassadors of 

 Flora, who were stopped in their mission by premature death. We 

 shall now speak of those whose destinies proved more auspicious. 



* See J. P. Falk's Supplements to the Topographical Knowledge of the Russian Empire. 

 Narrative of his Travels from 176^ to 1773. St. fetenburgh, oftavo, in German. 



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