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Yet Linnaeus was delighted with Osbeck's journal, which described novel plants, harbor boats filled with hundreds of ducks trained to come and go on command, and a populace with the nasty habit of throwing rocks at him while he botanized.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net Jennie Erin Smith 2012
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"I seem myself to have travelled with you," Linnaeus gushed upon reading it, and named a genus of flowering shrubs after Osbeck.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net Jennie Erin Smith 2012
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Subsequent travelogues by Linnaeus's protégés would prove finer still than Osbeck's.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net Jennie Erin Smith 2012
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Pehr Osbeck, who in 1750 voyaged to South China as a chaplain with the Swedish East India Co., flubbed his mentor's requests to bring back "goldfish for Her Majesty" and a live tea bush.
Brotherhood of the Butterfly Net Jennie Erin Smith 2012
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Janet Browne mentions some of these far-flung Linnaean protégés: Osbeck sailed to China, Solander was on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, Gmelin went to Siberia, Koenig to Tranquebar wherever that is, and Carl Peter Thunberg got into imperial Japan, after which he published his Flora Japonica, by definition a work of island biogeography.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He became known for translating and editing some of the works by Kalm, Osbeck, and other scientific travelers, as well as for his own writings, and in 1772 he was elected to the Royal Society.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Janet Browne mentions some of these far-flung Linnaean protégés: Osbeck sailed to China, Solander was on board the Endeavour with Captain Cook and Joseph Banks, Gmelin went to Siberia, Koenig to Tranquebar wherever that is, and Carl Peter Thunberg got into imperial Japan, after which he published his Flora Japonica, by definition a work of island biogeography.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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He became known for translating and editing some of the works by Kalm, Osbeck, and other scientific travelers, as well as for his own writings, and in 1772 he was elected to the Royal Society.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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Eulabes javanensis (_Osbeck_), _Hume, Rough Draft N. & E. _ no.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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Water deficit and associated changes in some photosynthetic parameters in leaves of 'Valencia' orange (Citrus sinensis Osbeck)
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