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Heinrich Bergius was Lichtenstein's first emissary, sent out in 1815. He boarded with the Pallas family and turned out to be a diligent collector to the neglect of his pharmacy duties. The odours from his collection permeated the Pallas house, becoming a source of friction, so much so that he
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during his 1802-1806 stay at the Cape, made regular Sunday collecting excursions in the company of
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requested to be released from his contract, a release granted in June 1817. His death from tuberculosis followed in
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