He diffufeda fudden fpiritof inquiry ; and kindled among
his ftudents a new zeal for the ftudy o f natural hiftory,
Dilring the firft years o f his refidence at Upfala, he gave
publick herboriiing leftures in fpring and fummer, in the
neighbourhood o f that town. In thefe botanical excurftons
he was attended with a band o f trumpets and French-horns^
and fallied out at the head o f 200 or 300 ftudents, divided
into detached companies. When Linnaeus was inclined to
explain any curious plant, bird, or infeft, which had either
fallen under his own notice, or was brought to him by any of
the ftudents, the ftragglers were called together by the found
o f mufick, and crouding round their mafter liftened in re-
fpedfful filence while he offered his observations*.
His reputation was now fo widely fpread in foreign'countries,
that he received the moft flattering invitations to Peter f-
burgh, to Gottingen, and particularly to Madrid, where he
«was offered by the king o f Spain a very confiderable ftipend t,
q u e facem accerfaeras fcientia eatur&lMu-
44 culentiffirnara in deperditis hue u fque con-
44 ch arum generibus . D e h a c con cha die
44-noifhique.cogito ; de -eo loqu or hodie ;
44 n o i lu de eo io ran io ? ’ D e c . 3, 17-56.
In another le tte r to ou r E n g liih zo o lo g iit
he thus ac knowledges a p¡refent o f his Sy-
n cp fis e f.Q u ad ru p e d s , and candidly allows
.the merit o f th e w o rk, a lth o u g h ,it differed
in fome r e fp e if- from his own method o f
cla iiin g 'an im a ls . 44 D iu audivi D . T ro ill
“ feciim adduxiffe dona tua, qua; avidiffime
44 e x fp e& sv i. R ed u x tandem pridie ad nos
acceifit, e tn n ih i obt-ulit Synopfin tuam o f
44 Quaclr vpeds e t Zo o log iam Indicam. -Pro
44 fingulis grates reddo quas unqnam pof-
44 fim caliditfimns. Synopfin tuam legara
44 e t relegam millies. M u lta in eo o ccur-
44 runt lecSbu mihi ju cun diilima, e t maxirne
,4t u tilia q u x in iu cc iim e t fan g u in em .-—
44 PerTecto h o c opere mu lta a te quseram
44 * e c unquam me in g ra tum fcn tia s ,— N on'
<4 ?de methodo difpu taho ; mih i perirkle erit
44 utrum naturse cu lto r fit Lutheranus-, C a l-
44 vinianus , Judaicus , au t M a home tan us,
44 unice notatiam fp ecierum quseram.— O
_44 u tinam vi-lerem.reliqua tua opera' impri-
44 mis de avibus, quam mu lta inde addifce-
44 rena q u a etiamnura me fu giant.-.— T u a In-
44 dian Zoology perp ulchra e r a f ; p u lcherri-
44 mas figurze rariffimariim ce r te aviuin
4 ‘ defcriptiones etiam exa<fliilim;ej— V a le
11 plura p ro xim e . -UpXalia;* 17 73 , d . 2 .M a ii.”
T h e pu b lick w ill foon ha ve-frefli o b lig ations
to M r . Pen n an t, fo r his lo n g expected
w o rk T h e A r& io k Z o o lo g y .
* I am indebted to Sir John Cullum» for
th is ane cd ote, who received it from.D r. So-
lan d e r ; and it h a s ‘been fince confirmed to
me b y M r. D ry a rd e r , a Svvedifh gentleman,
who freq u en tly attended thefe botanical ex-
curfions-.
t A penfion o f 2.000 ju fto le s , Pu ltcney ,
-P >5’
the rank o f nobility, and the toleration o f his religion. But CHAP-
the profpedt even o f the moft fplendid advantages could not <— ■—->
feduce him from his native country, where he had acquired
the efteem o f his fovereign, and the general refpedt o f his-
countrymen, which he maintained until the day o f his death.
His fervicesin promoting every branch o f natural hiftory
were acknpwledged in the fulleft manner, and every affift-
ance afforded to his endeavours to improve and diffufe his
favourite fcience. A new houfe was raffed for him, at
the publick expence, clofe to the phyflck-garden : he was
oecafionally deputed by the ftates to make excurfions into
various parts o f Sweden, with a view to the advancement o f
natural hiftory. For this purpofe, he, at different times, vi-
fited the Iflands of Gothland and Oeland, the provinces o f
Skone and Weft Gothland; and communicated to the publick,
in his native language, the Itineraries o f his Travels,
which are faid to be replete with curious and philofophical
obfervations, the general purport o f which was principally
directed in adapting natural hiftory to ceconomical ufes.
Many o f his fcholars* were alfo, under his aufpices, dif-
patched to various parts o f the world, at the expence o f
the publick, or of particular focieties; and they all feem
to have caught from their belovedmafter a fpirit o f emulation
and , zeal for fcience : the communications which
he received from their unremitted labours furniihed him
with fuch information as enabled his comprehenfive mind to
appropriate, as it were, their difcoveriesj and to “ exemplify
“ in a more perfedt and detailed manner his fyftem o f nature f.”
* K a lm jou rn eyed fo N o r th Am e rica j
Haflelquift- to Smyrna , E g y p t , and Palef.-
t in e ; Ternflrcem, T o n e r iu s , and O ib e ck , to
China ; R o lan d er to S u r in am ; Lcefling to
Spain and N o r th Am e r ic a ; Forlkscl to A ra -
bia ; T h u n b e r g to the C a p e o f G o o d Elope,
B a ta via, and Japan ; Sparman to-th e C a p e
and Sou th Seas'; and above all the much to
be reg re tted D n Soland er roun d th e w o r ld . '
t .Pultcn ey , p . 34,