3 o4 THF LIFE OF THE YOUNGER LINNAEUS. 
he found also the greatest and finest collection of insefts which he had 
ever seen. He likewise saw there, the herbarium of his unfortunate 
countryman Forskal. He had now come to Copenhagen, the last city 
where he was to stay, in order to view and examine natural curiosities*. 
This capital was as eager as other great cities to receive him in the 
most friendly and most distinguished manner. He saw the Royal 
Museum of productions of nature and art, the cabinet of natural 
history ot Count Moltke, Privy Counsellor Holmskiold, 
Counsellor Frus Rottboell, Professor Brunich, Counsellor 
Muller, and of Messrs. Spenglkr, Chemnitz, and Cappel. The 
Danes honoured his knowledge and merits in the same manner as the 
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English and French had done. He had been chosen a Member of 
the Royal Society at London, of the Academy of Sciences at Mont- 
pellier, of the Medical Society at Paris, and also of the Royal So- 
ciety at Copenhagen. 
In the month of January 1783, he left that city and went to Gothen- 
burgh, whither his friendship and gratitude towards the beneficent pro- 
moter of his studies, Baron Nicholas Alstroemer, had impelled him 
to go. Finally, after an absence of two years he returned again to Upsal 
from his travels in the month of February, after having been through 
the same countries which had formerly been visited by his father. 
* He was already at Coper ;pe ,: in the summer of 1771. He travelled for the recovery 
of his health which had been n ch impaired by the hypochondry, through the Southern 
provinces of Sweden, crossed the found, and not having leave to go farther, remained two 
days at Copenhagen. He owned afterwards to a friend, that he then felt a strong temptation 
to range all over the world, had the love which he bore to his father not induced him to go 
back. 
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