i84 TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINN^US. 



In all those parts of the world, whence the Muses are not entirely 

 banished, Linnaeus became the modern teacher of natural hist( y. 

 His system was equally as well received at Batavia * and Calcutca, as 

 at New York and Philadelphia. The friends of nature of all nations 

 and all religions, did homage to his system. His name and his doc- 

 trine became even known among the Mahometans. Bjoernstahl un- 

 expeftedly experienced the truth of this assertion. While he was at 

 Tharapia in Turkey f he saw a Greek in a field, who was walking 

 about with a book in his hands. He accosted him, and found with 

 astonishment that the book which he held, was no other than the Lin- 

 NiEAN System of Nature, the edition printed at Halle in 1761." 

 The Greek whose name was Demetrios, informed him, that he had 

 formerly been first physician to the Pacha of Egypt; that five European 

 learned men had been presented to him, among whom there was a bo- 

 tanist, with whom he had made several botanical excursions in the en- 

 virons of Cairo, where they remained six months ; that this same bo- 

 tanist had inspired him with the love of plants, made known to him the 

 great man in Europe, (meaning Linn s) and had shown him the way to 

 colle8; and preserve plants. — The botanist whom Demetrios alluded 

 to was the ill-fated Forskal. 



Not only the remotest quarters of the globe, but also many of the 

 European states became the objefts of the travels of the disciples of 

 LiNN/Eus. In 1752 Martin Koehler made a tour through into 

 Italy; in 1760 Alstroemer visited the same country, France and 



* At Batavia an extract of his system was printed with its technology in the Malay 

 language. 



t See J. J. Bjoernstahl's Letters, vol. iv. Rostock i-jii, 



Spain s 



