TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 
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about the same time a voyage was made to this latter country and the 
South-Eastern part of Asia, by one of the most distinguished pupils 
of the Linn.can school, then a physician in- the service of the Dutch 
East-India Company. This was Dottor Charles Peter Thunberg, 
that celebrated naturalist and worthy successor of his great teacher at 
Upsal, and of his friend Linnaeus junior. He has been created a 
knight of the order of Vasa , since the year 1785*. t 
Thus the spirit of Linnaeus 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 Sparrmann — and before him Dr. So- 
lan der, who, after Linnaeus, 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 Aluseum till his death, which 
happened in the year 1782+. 
t C. P. Thunberg, M. D. F. R. S.— Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, especially in 
yapan during the years 1770 to 1779, are translated into English, in 3 vols. o£tavo. 
The Chevalier Charles Thunberg commenced his travels, which lasted nine years, in 
August 1770, through Norway and Denmark, reached France in November, remained almost 
a twelvemonth at Paris , went from thence to Holland , embarked there for the Cape of Good 
Hope, and travelled three years through the interior parts of Africa ; in 1775 he went to 
Batavia and Japan, and after a rssidence of sixteen months returned to the Island of Java, 
explored its interior parts during six months, went to < Ion, iierc lie also remained 
six months, and returned afterwards to his country by thf rpe of Good Hope, through Eng- 
land, Holland and Germany. His travels are the most interesting ever made by a native of 
Sweden. See the letter which Linnaeus wrote to him in the Collegia Epistolarum C. A. 
Linne, Hamb. 1791. 
f 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 
medal was struck at Gothenburg in Sweden, by Baron Alstroemer representing the flower 
Solandra, with this inscription 1 Josepho Banks Effigiem Memo D. D. D. Cl. et Jo. 
Alstroemer. 
