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figure of Isis with Hermes lifting the veil, and the inscription, 

 " Natures, sacra orgia movit " (he stirred the holy mysteries of 

 Nature). In the same year the Apothecaries' Society of Sweden 

 erected a monument with a relief portrait of Scheele in the Lu- 

 theran church in Koping, of which Scheele had been a member. 



At the occasion of the centennial of Scheele's death, May 21, 

 1886, a memorial service was held at Koping, where Prof. Berg- 

 strand, of Stockholm, delivered an oration on the life and life- 

 work of the eminent apothecary and chemist. On this occasion 

 the project was advanced to erect to Scheele a monument at 

 Stockholm similar to the one that had been placed there to Berze- 



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lius in 1855. The Apothecaries' Society of Stockholm fostered 

 this project in close accord with the learned societies of the coun- 

 try, and with so much success that the requisite funds were soon 

 raised. A committee, with Prof, von Nordenskjold at its head, 

 took charge of the matter. Prof. I. Borgeson, the eminent Swedish 

 sculptor, undertook the modeling of the statue, and has executed 

 a fine work of art. The statue, which represents the chemist rest- 

 ing on a chair and watching a process of ignition in a crucible, 

 was unveiled on the 9th of December, 1892, the one hundred and 

 fiftieth anniversary of Scheele's birth. It stands in the " Hum- 

 ble Garden/' one of the city parks, upon a beautiful floral par- 



