i86 TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 



inse^, or Zoega with a moss, I pull off my hat, and say — Be you my: 

 teachers *! 



3. Professor P. D. Gieseke at Hamburgh, frequented the Linn.^an 

 kftures in 177 1, having taken his degree of Do61;or at Goettingen in 

 1768. " How much I loved and esteemed Gieseke," said Linnv'Eus 

 afterwards to another of his German pupils, " he himself cannot but 

 " have knoivn. I made him acquainted with the higher curiosities of nature, 

 *' and took no small pains in giving him leBures on the natural orders of 

 " plants f." 



4. F. Ehrhart, botanist at Herrenhausen, near Hanover, -wdii one of 

 tire most confidential and most persevering pupils of Linn ^us, at whose 

 leftures he assisted between three and four years, viz. from the 20th of 

 April 1773, to the 28th of April 1776, and the only native of Switzer- 

 land who perhaps ever studied at Upsal. For several years back that 

 republic has been famous for being the native country of botanists and 

 naturalists. Linnaeus had acquired some of his knowledge from their 

 produdions. How great therefore must have been his joy to see the 

 penetration of his genius and the fame of his science transmitted to pos- 

 terity by a native of that country. 



Among the Swedish pupils of Lin n^-us who settled in Germany, was^ 

 the celebrated mineralogist, J. J. Ferber, professor at Mitaii, and 

 afterwards counsellor of the mines of the King of Prussia. He was 



* Si Dominus Fabricius venitcum aliquo insefto, etDominus Zoega cum aliquo musco, 

 tunc ego pileum detraho et dico : estote doftores mei !— These are Linn^uss's own words, 

 copied verbatim. 



f Quantopere Dom. Gieseke amaverim— et aestimaverium, ipsumfugere non potuit. AU 

 ti(ora ei tradidi, nec parum laboravi, quam prskgerera ipse ordines naturales plantarum. 



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