LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 3817 
gated tohim. With these accumulated honours and duties, 
Dr Swartz laboured in his various employments till Septem- 
ber of the year 1818, when he died of nervous fever, after a 
short illness of eleven days. His constitution had never been 
strong, and the numerous avocations that called for his atten- 
tion, were pursued with such zeal as often to make Dr Swartz 
neglect his health, and thus bring on attacks of illness that 
might perhaps have otherwise been avoided. In person he 
was rather above the middle height, slender, but well formed, 
with good features which in youth must have been very hand- 
some, as even in later years he had all the freshness and 
agreeable traits of a young man. His vivacity of manners, 
cheerful aspect, and winning deportment, rendered him an 
universal favourite, while his instructive conversation and 
high moral character completed the fascination. A portrait 
... of Dr Swartz, published in the Swedish Journal, is not unlike 
him, though it is far from doing him justice; while the 
medallion executed by Fogelberg, and which may be pur- 
chased in Stockholm, though highly characteristic of his - 
- features, and perfectly well done in all its parts, gives him. 
too melancholy a countenance. 
> Since the days of Linneus, no Naturalist has so much 
- raised the fame of the Swedish school, as Dr Swartz. To 
him all writers on the subject appealed before committing 
their works to the press; and excepting Thunberg, it would 
be difficult to name any Botanist who imparted knowledge 
and distributed his treasures with such liberality, for he was 
above petty jealousies, and loved to see science promoted by 
others as well as himself. How mùch he aided Weber and 
-= Mohr in their publications on Mosses—Willdenow, Romer, 
. and Schultes, in their more general works—Acharius in his 
— Lichens— Lehmann in the Asperifolie—and Billberg, in his 
. book on the Botany of Sweden, has been gratefully acknow- 
ledged by these respective authors, and scarcely a contem- 
porary botanist ‘exists who does not owe him valuable assis- 
tance. The writings of Swartz are marked by correctness, 
clear comprehension, simplicity and ease. | 
.. Vol. II.— No. 15. 3» 
