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about the same time a voyage was made to this latter country and Che 

 South-Eastern part of Asia, by one of the most distinguished pupils 

 of the LiNN-'EAN school, then a physician in the service of the Dutch 

 East-India Company. This was Do6:or Charles Peter Thunberg, 

 that celebrated naturalist and worthy successor of his great teacher at 

 UjJsal, and of his friend Linnaeus junior. He has been created a 

 knight of the order of Vasa, since the year 1785*. 



Thus the spirit of Linn/Eus diffused itself from the North through 

 all the zones of the earth, thus his name was spread by his disciples over 

 most parts of the world, even in the Southern Indies. Some of his 

 pupils were among the first who entered and explored the new discovered 

 countries. One of them was Spakrmann — and before him Dr. So- 

 LANDER, who, after Linnaus, travelled through the Alps of Lapland^ 

 and accompanied, with Sir Joseph Banks, the great and immortal 

 Captain Cook in his voyage of discovery. He remained at London, 

 where he held an office in the British Museum till his death, which 

 happened in the year 1782 1. 



t C. p. Thunberg, M. D. F. R. S. — Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially in 

 Japan during the years 1770 to 1779, are translated into English, in 3 vols, oftavo. 

 The Chevalier Charles Thunberg commenced his travels, which lasted nine years, in 

 Aii'^ust 1770, through Norivay and Denmark, reached France in November, remained almost 

 a twelvemonth at Paris, went from thence to Holland, en.baiked there for the Cape of Good 

 Hope, and travelled three years through the interior parts of Africa ; in 1775 he went to 

 Bata'via and Jafan, and after a rssidence of sixteen months returned to the Island of Ja-va, 

 explored its interior parts during six months, went to Ceylon, where he also remained 

 six months, and returned afterwards to his country by the Cape of Good Hope, through Eng- 

 land, Holland and Germany. His travels are the most interesting ever made by a native of 

 Snjoeden. See the letter which Linn u s wrote to him m the ColleBio Epistolarum C. A. 

 LiNNE, Hamb. 1792. 



t See an account of the life and writings of Dr. Solander, by Sir Joseph Banks— 

 also his Biography in the German literary journals of Halle, by Prof. G. Forster.— A 

 meddlwas struck at Gothenburg in Sivcden, by Baron Alstroemer representing the flower 

 Solandra, with this inscription: JosEPHO Banks Effigiem Mento D. D. D, CI. et Jo. 

 Alstroemer. 



