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mourning ; his funeral was attended by all the profefTors, 

 dodors, and ftudents then at Upfal ; and his pall was 

 supported by eighteen d« 6lors, who had formerly been 

 hts pupils. The Academy of Belles Letters at Stock- 

 holm offered a gold medal for the bed eulogium on Linne, 

 and another was offered, by the command of the King, 

 for the bell inlcription, either in Latin or Swedilh, to be. 

 engravt:d on his monument, ere£ied at the entrance of 

 the new botanical garden. The king, in his fpecch to 

 the flaies, publicly lamented his death ; and ordered a 

 medal to be Itruck to his memory. And in 1787, when 

 the foundation of the new building in the botanical gar- 

 den was laid, among the Swedjih coins which were de- 

 pofited on the iirll ftone, a medal was likewife placed in 

 honor of Linne. 



In other places likewife, where his merits were re- 

 verenced, honors in token of regard and affedion for his 

 mem ry were exhibited. Dr. Hope, the profcffor of 

 botany at Edinburgi pronounced an oraiion in praife of 

 Linne, at the opening of his le£lures in 1778 ; and 

 ereded a monument to him in the botanic garden of that 

 univerfity. Condorcet and Vice d'Azyr read panegy- 

 lies in hi> praife at Paris, and the fame was done by 

 Beiris at Helmftadt. The Duke de Noailles caufed 4 

 monument to be ereded to his memory in his garden. 



Th^ iffue of Linne were two fons and four daugh- 

 ters : Charles, who fucceeded his father; John, who 



