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among his pupils he thenceforth never mentioned 
Missa, whose after fate is unknown. 
The delight and satisfaction to which the many 
foreign visitors to Uppsala gave expression, was 
balanced by the trouble experienced from Th. E. 
Nathorst from Silesia, who was registered in 1755, 
but did not prosecute his studies. 
There was a prospect of trouble, which, however, 
did not take place, when the rich Russian noblemen, 
Matthaeus Aphonin and Alexander Karamyschew, at 
the Tsar’s expense, came to Uppsala to study in 
October, 1761, and there throve so well, that the 
former stayed till 1769 and the latter till 1767. 
Although they did not show great diligence, they 
readily joined in every kind of frolic, and Karamyschew 
especially seems to have been very popular among 
the other students, notably when in 1766 his 
disputation was accompanied by eight congratulatory 
epistles, in French, German, Russian, Latin (prose 
and verse) and Swedish. 
There was much excitement in 1762 when the 
Russians were personally abused by some townspeople 
and badly used. The Rector at once enquired into 
the matter, and punishment of some days’ prison fare 
and fines was imposed upon the offenders, and a 
reprimand issued warning all that the credit of the 
University was imperilled by such disorders. The 
Russians were again in trouble in 1769 during some 
wedding festivities, and on at least two other occasions 
their escapades were brought before the Consistory. 
In the Appendix will be found a complete list of 
Linne’s foreign pupils, but certain others stood in such 
intimate relation to their teacher, as to deserve special 
mention. 
First may be named the German, J. C. D. Schreber. 
In 1758 he was corresponding with Linne, who said 
of him, that he was a quick fellow, who wrote little, 
but liked mineralogy and sent many fine insects. In 
1760 in spite of the war, Linne bespoke the influence 
