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preface; later he wrote to the author, “ I have read 
your c Pan apum ’ eight times and I can say it is a 
jewel.” 
Another pupil was Johan Gustaf Wahlbom, who 
showed himself worthy of the post he obtained at an 
early age, as Adjunct in 1748, and M.D. in 1751 ; in 
the latter year being appointed Professor of Natural 
History at Lund. He increased his knowledge in 
Germany, and on his return home, settled in Kalmar 
county as provincial physician up to 1794. 
About the same time as Hagstrom and Wahlbom, 
Erik Gustaf Liidbeck was living at Uppsala, and by 
his devotion to natural history endeared himself to 
Linne. He served as secretary in the Linnean 
journey to Skane, and later, in 1756, was installed in 
the newly established chair of Natural History at 
Lund. 
A still greater eminence in science must be 
allowed to Peter Johan Bergius. After studying two 
years at Lund, he came in 1749 to Uppsala, where, 
attracted by Linne’s lectures, he gave himself up to 
biology. After concluding his academic studies in 
1761, he became Professor of Natural History and 
Pharmacy in Stockholm, and Assessor in the Medical 
College in 1766. With his brother Bengt Bergius, 
he raised a memorial to his generosity by a large 
donation to the Academy of Science, which is now 
extant, with its library and collections, as the Bergian 
Garden. 
Upon settling in Stockholm P. J. Bergius took up 
medicine, and speedily became famous as a physician. 
After a little coolness between them, caused by adverse 
criticism by Linne on a paper written by Bergius on 
the Soja bean, the old cordial relations were resumed, 
and Linne greatly pleased Bergius by the gift of 
duplicates from his herbarium. Linne also praised 
Bergius’s volume “ De plantis Africanis,” and in return 
received many heaths from him. 
J. A. Murray’s younger brother, Adolf, was born in 
