884° LIFE OF OLAF SWARTZ. 
A full list of all his works is given in Wikstróm's ** Conspectus 
Litterature Botanice in Suecia ab antiquissimis temporibus 
usque ad finem anni 1831, p. 244, et seq. 
His name will be handed to posterity in the Swartzia of 
Willdenow, a genus of Leguminous Plants of very remarkable 
structure, inhabiting the West Indies and South America, 
to which a great number of new species have lately been 
added at p. 85, et seq. of our present Journal. >In 1824, a 
medal was struck in honour of him by order of the Academy 
of Stockholm. It represents on one side the head of Swartz, 
and on the reverse, a plant of the Lily of the Valley, with 
the motto ** honos dum prata virebunt.” Sprengel has thus 
summed up the general character of this excellent man. 
** Quod Croeso scribit preceptum a Solone Herodotus, bea- 
tam vitam expectare ultimum setatis tempus, neque quem- 
quam, antequam e vita discesserit, dici beatum posse, id om- 
nino in Swartzium nostrum cadere mihi videtur. Siquidem 
prosperitas complectitur tum earum rerum copiam, quas 
fortuna largitur ad bene beateque vivendum, corporis nimi- 
rum mentisque sanitatem, opulentiam etiam, seu saltem 
egestatis absentiam, tum ea, quae in potestate hominum sita 
. sunt, virtutem omnium concentum, animi candorem, scien- - 
! tiam. amplam, suavitatem morum, tranquillitatem mentis, 
hominum omnium, quibuscum versamur, amorem simultatum 
invidieque absentiam, domestica: demum vite felicitatem et 
innocentiam. . His omnibus cum Swartzius vel abundaverit, - 
vel non caruerit, bene beateque vixisse exploratum babemuüs. 
Namque. mediocri. loco. eoque honesto natus, a parentibus. 
solerter educatus, opibus umquam indiguit ad scientiam - 
; augendam itinera suspicienda, supellectilem literariam acqui- 
-rendam.. Sanitate gavisus est stabili prosperaque ad ultimos - 
usque statis annos. Morum suavitas et innocentia in eo €a 
ut amore sincero omnes fere homines amplecteretur, Ut 
O 1pst invisus esset, ut a nemine lzederetur, neminem un* — 
Much of the. character of an individual may be learned - 
from a perusal 9 his letters, - We shall conclude our notices 
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