TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 
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Spaing in 1758, Anthony Rolandson Martin * explored Spit z- 
Bergen -, Uno Von Troil, now Archbishop of Upsal, made a torn 
to Ireland in 17 72 ; Rotiimann to France , Africa, See. Fabricius 
to Norway , England and France ; Gieseke to Great Britain and 
France -, Ehrhart through the territories of Brunswick , Hanovet , See . 
Ferber through Italy and Hungary, besides many whose names would 
form too long a list to admit of being inserted here. 
The natural history of Sweden , however much Linnaeus himself 
had already done for its progress, was remarkably more advanced and 
enriched by the travels and observations of his pupils. Dr. Sol and er 
travelled through Pithea Lapland ; Montin in 1759 to Lulea Lapland-, 
Falk and Dr. Bergius in 1752 to Gothland-, Kalm to West Gothland , 
See. Sec. 
Among his foreign pupils there were several Germans whose merits he 
had most reason to boast. Among them we reckon the following, 
according to the chronological order in which they studied at Upsal: 
1. Counsellor Schreber at Erlangen , frequented the lectures of 
Linnaeus about the years 1759 and 1760 ; and besides Nicholas 
Lawrence Burmann, the present professor of botany and physic at 
Amsterdam , was the only foreigner who ever lived in the house of Lin- 
naeus. The latter gave him this char abler : He was as penetrating as 
any of the pupils I ever had under me. 
2. Professor Fabricius at Kiel, studied ac Upsal 1762 till 1764, 
with the late Danish counsellor of state Zoega, who died in the year 
1788. Linnaeus said of them: If Fabricius comes to me with an 
* He died at Upsal as professor of anatomy, Sept 10, 1785. 
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