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Copenhagen, Marseilles, Malta, Smyrna and Con¬ 
stantinople were visited; Alexandria being reached in 
October. Clothed as a peasant to escape marauding 
Bedouins, he roamed round Cairo, and was successful 
in making a good collection of new plants. He then 
travelled by Suez and Jeddah to Arabia Felix, finding 
a hundred novel species and thirty new genera. Soon 
afterward he was stricken with plague at Jerim, where 
Carl Niebuhr, sick himself, had the grief to watch him 
die, on the nth July. Forskal had previously sent 
a small book, relating his discoveries and ready for 
printing, to Denmark, where it was seen through the 
press by Niebuhr, the sole survivor of the expedition. 
The genus Forskolea botanically commemorates the 
ill-fated discoverer of a very distinct genus. 
A journey of quite a different character was 
undertaken by Clas Alstromer. Born in 1736, he 
was sent by his father, the well-known Jonas 
Alstromer, to Uppsala to study economics, under the 
guidance of Linne, Wallerius, and Berch. He had 
the opportunity in 1760-4 to embark on extensive 
travels through Spain, Italy, France, England, etc.; 
finding his letter of recommendation from Linne of 
immense use, and sending in return many plants, 
seeds and shells. He became Baron in 1778, and 
died in 1794. 
In the year before Forskal quitted Sweden, 
Daniel Solander also left it. He was born at Pitea in 
1733, became student at Uppsala in 1750, where he 
was constantly at Linne’s house; he travelled in his 
native province in 1756 for plants, which are still to 
be seen in the Linnean herbarium, and the Consistory 
put on record their estimation of his diligence and 
skill. 
He also was attracted to the investigation of 
foreign lands. The zealous London naturalists, John 
Ellis and Peter Collinson, had requested Linne to 
send some of his pupils to encourage the study of 
natural history in England. For this, Solander, the 
