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found impossible to arrange that; he therefore was 
dispatched in 1763 to St. Petersburg, where he 
became administrator of the rich museum belonging 
to the Imperial Body Physician Kruse. But constant 
hypochondria and ill-health, due to a sedentary life, 
embittered his existence. 
Kruse had died before 1765, so Falck was offered 
a position in the Collegium medicum, with super¬ 
intendence of the medical garden, but he could 
not support the prospect of continuing in Russia. In 
1768, J. J. Lerche nominated him as naturalist for an 
expedition first intended for Persia, but afterwards 
changed for Orenburg. He started on his journey, 
but was stopped in Moscow by a complication of 
disorders till his health was somewhat restored. 
Finally in 1772 he was found dead in his bed, from a 
pistol shot in his head, self inflicted. 
Anders Berlin after finishing his academic studies, 
came to London in 1770, where he was most kindly 
received by Solander, and engaged by Banks as an 
assistant at ,£80 salary, which post he held till J 773 , 
when he accepted an invitation to visit the Guinea 
coast, as a scientific helper to Smeathman, a young 
Englishman, who had gone thither a year earlier. 
He was delighted with the vegetation and sent some 
plants to Linne, but the unhealthy climate claimed 
him as a victim a short time later. 
The next of Linne’s pupils to be considered, is 
Carl Peter Thunberg, who had a double claim on 
Linne’s good-will, as a zealous naturalist and as 
a Smalander. In 1770 he went to Paris, but stayed 
so long abroad, that he only came home in 1779, when 
Linne had been dead fifteen months. 
This happened because the open letter of 
recommendation he had from Linne, operated so 
advantageously that in Holland he was induced to 
undertake a long voyage as far as Japan, which land 
was at that time closed to all nations except the 
Dutch; therefore to gain entrance, Thunberg had to 
