TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 
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made by so great a man, was instantly complied with, Magnus La- 
oerstroem, a great lover of natural history, was then dire&or of that 
company, and the academy of Stockholm afterwards received him as 
one of its members. He gratified every wish of Linn^us; took 
the young travellers under his special protection, and charged the cap- 
tains of the ships to serve them whenever they found an opportunity, 
Lagerstroem even brought it so far, that they could purchase natural 
curiosities in China at the company’s own expence*. 
The first of the pupils of Linnaeus, who profited by this oppor- 
tunity to visit a remote part of the world, was C. Ternstoem, 
a young man who seemed to be born to colleCt natural cu- 
riosities. In 1745 he embarked at Gothenburgh for China-, but fell 
a vi&im to the climate, even before he could reach the place of his 
destination. He died at Poulicandor, towards the close of 1745. 
Soon after Linnaeus became the instrument of a second voyage. 
He represented in his lectures, in the most eloquent and persuasive man- 
ner, the extraordinary merits and great celebrity which a young stu- 
dent might obtain by travelling through Palestine , and by enquiring 
into and describing the natural history of that country, which was till 
then unknown, and had become of the greatest importance to interpret 
the bible, and to understand eastern philology. This certainly was an 
* Regise Cancellariae, sintul regiae tunc temporis Scientiarum Acadcmi/e Praxes, Comes 
Tessin, cum Societate Indica convenit, ut quotannis cum navibus liceret mittere juvenem, 
naturae sacris initiation, in Indias, Societatis hujus impensis ; quod, quamvis ab initio insuetum 
facile tatnen evenit, ope re et favorc nostri M. Lagekstroem, qui non modo summo ta- 
vore amplexus est ejusmodi naturae curiosos, sed in mandatis dedit navium gubernatoribus, 
ut his inservirent, quacunque liceret regionc, ut finem ubtinerent propositum ; immo quod 
magis cst, jussit Socctati subjeiftos socios, suis propriis impensis emere, quxeunque m China 
occurrerent singularia ad locupletandam Scientiam priest an tissi mam. Amaemiales Academic#, 
vol. vi. Edit. Schreber, p. *3*. 
Herculean 
