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i8 6 TRAVELLING PUPILS OF LINNAEUS. 
insect, or Zoega with a moss , I full off my hat, and say — Be you my 
teachers *! 
3. Professor P. D. Gieseke at Hamburgh , frequented the Linn .can 
le&ures in 1771, having taken his degree of Doftor at Goettingen in 
1768. « How much I loved and esteemed Gieseke,” said Linnaeus 
afterwards to another of his German pupils, “ he himself cannot but 
(i have known. I made him acquainted with the higher curiosities of nature , 
“ and took no small fains in giving him lectures on the natural orders of 
** flants +.” 
4. F. Eh rhart, botanist at Herrenhausen , near Hanover, was one of 
the most confidential and most persevering pupils of Lin n^e 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 Ufsal. For several years back that 
republic has been famous for being the native country of botanists and 
naturalists. Linn/eus had acquired some of his knowledge from their 
productions. 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 Linnaeus who settled in Germany, wat 
the celebrated mineralogist, J. J. Ferber, professor at Mitau, and 
afterwards counsellor of the mines of the King of Prussia. He was 
* Si Dominus Fabricius venitcum aliquo insefto, etDominus Zoega cumaliquo musco, 
• tunc ego pileum detraho et dico : estote do Stores mei ! — These are LinNjEuss’s own words, 
copied verbatim. 
+ Quantopere Dom. Gieseke amaverim — et aestimaverium, ipsum fugere non potuit. Al- 
tiora, ei tradidi, nec parum laboravi, quam prselegerem ipse ordines naturales plantarum. 
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