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SECTION VIII. 
EXCURSIONS OF THE NORTHERN LITERATI.— HISTORY 
OF THE TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINN/EUS. 
EXTENSIVE SPHERE OF THE OPERATIONS OF LINNAEUS. — THE UNHAPPY DESTINY 
OF NATURALISTS.— PATRIOTIC EXERTIONS.— OPPORTUNITIES OF TRAVELLING 
FOR THE PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. — COUNT TESSIN.— THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 
AT GOTHE N BURGH.— TERNSTROEM, THE FIRST ITINERANT DISCIPLE OF LIN- 
N AL US. — H IS TRAGICAL END.— F. HASSELQUIST-S TRAVELS IN PALESTINE; DIES 
AT SMYRNA.— PRESERVATION OF HIS COLLECTIONS.— NARRATIVE OF HIS 
TRAVELS.— P. FORSKAL TRAVELS WITH NIEBUHR AND THE REST OF THE DA- 
NISH SOCIETY IN ARABIA.— HIS MELANCHOLY END.— HIS LAST LETTER TO 
LINN-'EUS. — P - LCEFLING GOES AS BOTANIST TO MADRID, AND HENCE TO 
AMERICA. — DIES IN THE FLOWER OF YOUTH. — J. p. FALK. TUTOR TO LIN* 
NALUS, JUN. GOES TO RUSSIA.— SHOOTS HIMSELF AT CASAN.— BJOERNSTAHL 
DIES AT SALONICHI.— MORE FORTUNATE PEREGRINATING DISCIPLES OF 
LINNAEUS. — P. KALM'S VOYAGE TO NORTH AMERICA.— ACCOUNT OF THIS 
VOYAGE.— TRAVELS OF ROLANDER, TOREN, OSBECK, SPARRMANN, THE CHEVA- 
LIER C. P. THUNBERG AND DR. SOLANDER.— THE TWO LATTER SAIL ROUND THE 
WORLD.— THE NAME AND FAME OF LINN ALUS ARE SPREAD ALL OVER THE 
GLOBE.— LIN N-KUS HAS A DISCIPLE AMONG THE MAHOMETANS.— TRAVELLING 
PUPILS OF LINNjEUS IN EUROPE. — DISCI PLES OF LINNALUS IN GERMANY.— 
FABRICIUS, SCHREBER, G1ESEKE, EHRHART.— SPECIAL ALLEGATIONS— ANEC- 
DOTES.— FERBER AND THE CHEVALIER J. A. MURRAY.— LINN ALUS’S PECULIAR 
MODE OF HONOURING HIS FRIENDS AND MEN OF MERIT.— NAMES OF PLANTS. 
-BARON HALLER'S CRITIQUE ON THIS SUBJECT. 
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Linnaeus was of the number of those great men who exhibited 
the most eloquent picture of the strength of the human powers and 
endowments, .and who proved by their own example, what the genius 
and activity of a single individual is capable to accomplish. Let us 
remember 
