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vestigations in the colonies, Linne perpetuated the glory of his pupil 
by giving our beautiful mountain laurel the scientific name Ivalmia 
Latifolia. It was largely through the medium of Pehr Kalm that his 
famous teacher was enabled to make an early study and classification 
of American plants and animals. 
Kalm’s journey to the New World was not without its exciting 
adventures and annoying features. First of all, it was no small matter 
to collect the necessary funds for such a costly expedition, making due 
allowance for delays, accidents, and unfavorable rates of exchange. 
Much was contributed by stipends and other academic gifts, for the 
scientist was to travel at “public expense,” but Kalm was eventually 
obliged to draw on his own savings as well. At all events, animated 
by a hopeful, enterprising spirit and accompanied by an expert gar¬ 
dener, Lars Jungstrom, Kalm started from Uppsala, “in the name 
of the Lord right after dinner,” on October 5, 1747 (October 16, New 
Style) for England via Goteborg, embarking on December 11. A 
storm drove his vessel against the coast of Norway, where Kalm, while 
waiting for another boat, made unintentional but opportune investiga¬ 
tions until February 8, 1748. On February 17 we find our travellers 
in London, now facing the prospect of waiting another six months, 
owing to the scarcity of ships, before securing passage for America. 
But Kalm made good use of his time, studying English conditions, 
making the acquaintance of eminent Englishmen, improving his own 
knowledge of the English language, and obtaining valuable letters 
of introduction to prominent Colonial families. Finally, on August 
5, Kalm and his companion were duly installed on the Ma7'y Gaily, 
Captain Lawson, bound for the new continent. This part of the voy¬ 
age proved unusually pleasant, and the naturalist had a good oppor¬ 
tunity to study the seaweed, the fish, fowl, porpoises, and other 
phenomena of the sea, and to take regular meteorological observations, 
using the newly invented Swedish Centigrade thermometer. On Sep¬ 
tember 13 the Mary Golly ran on a sand bar off the coast of Maryland, 
but managed to get afloat again, and reached Philadelphia two days 
later. 
Naturally Kalm had no definite itinerary with fixed dates mapped 
out for his work in America; but, in brief, his explorations extended to 
Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, and to southern Canada. 
The remainder of the first year, 1748, was spent in what is now the 
United States attending to the more specific duties of his mission, the 
collecting and dispatching of seeds to Sweden. The following year he 
continued his wanderings to Lake Champlain and Canada, returning 
to “New Sweden” about Christmas time. In 1750 he explored western 
Pennsylvania and penetrated northward to Niagara Falls. In October 
the botanist came back to Philadelphia, which he left on February 13, 
