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observations, and obtain living gold-fish for the 
Queen. 
At the beginning of 1746 he went to Gothenburg 
to embark, but before sailing, a disastrous fire broke 
out in the town, destroying more than a quarter of it. 
Letters came from him from Cadiz, but the next 
intelligence was that he died at Pulo Candor on the 
5th December, 1746. 
Linne was terribly grieved, not only for the lost 
hopes of scientific results, but for the widow and 
orphans; he tried to procure some help for them, and 
said that the widow accused him of having enticed 
her husband away, thus making her a widow. He 
wished to publish Ternstrom’s observations, but 
finding no opportunity for that, the genus Tern- 
strcemia was founded in memory of his former 
pupil. 
Before Ternstrom had started, Baron Sten Bjelke 
had urged that a naturalist should be dispatched to 
some country in the same latitude as Sweden, with a 
view of introducing plants for food, medicine or 
manufacture. The most suitable land seemed to 
Linne to be North America, where Morus rubra if 
brought over, might supply food for silkworms and 
so set up a new industry. For this expedition, his 
pupil Pehr Kalm was selected, he having previously 
travelled in Sweden, Finland and Russia, with good 
results. The difficulty was to provide funds for a 
long trip, but ultimately help came from the univer¬ 
sities of Uppsala and Abo, as well as from a 
manufacturers’ union, chiefly through Linne’s 
exertions. 
At last Kalm, accompanied by a gardener, L. 
Jungstrom, journeyed to Gothenburg; after sailing, 
the vessel was driven into a Norwegian port by stress 
of weather, so that he did not reach England till 
17th February, 1747. He was forced to remain here 
till the 5th August, but spent his time botanizing 
round London, reaching Philadelphia on the 
