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an excursion towards the Atlas Mountains yielded 
some botanic results. He returned to Stockholm in 
1776, in broken health, and, two years later, died as 
Assessor to the Medical College. 
Another of Linne’s pupils was Johan Andreas 
Murray, who without doubt became a star of the first 
magnitude in botany. Born in 174° at Stockholm, 
his father being chaplain to the German colony there, 
he became student at Uppsala in 1756, and Linne 
soon discerned in him one of his most diligent and 
clever pupils. A close friendship was formed, as 
between father and son, which was only ended by 
death. Murray took his degree as Licentiate at 
Uppsala, and proceeding M.D. at Gottingen, became 
Professor of Medicine there in 1764, with super¬ 
intendence of the botanic garden, and died in that 
place in 1791. 
During a visit to Sweden in 1772, noticing an 
interleaved copy of the twelfth edition of the “ Systema 
Naturae,” he begged Linne to bring out a new edition, 
but the reason he alleged for not doing so, was want 
of time; however, he put the volume into Murray’s 
hands, with permission to print it if he felt so inclined. 
Murray agreed, found a publisher in Germany, and 
astonished his old teacher, when the book was printed 
in 1774, by sending him a handsome sum for author¬ 
ship, received by Linne with great satisfaction. 
After Linne’s death, he issued another edition of the 
“ Systema vegetabilium,” the fourteenth. Linne was 
much touched by Murray naming him godfather to 
his little girl Carolina. 
There were many pupils who deserve mention 
here, but the number must be restricted to a few 
more. Johan Otto Hagstrom distinguished himself 
by drawing up a list of the plants eaten by various 
farm animals. From 1754 his time was taken up by 
his duties as provincial physician in East Gothland, but 
he produced his “ Pan apum,” a small work on the 
flowers affected by bees, to which Linne added a 
