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Who can number the members to whose first scientific attempts 

 you gave counsel and help ? To their brightest memories belongs 

 your winning, warmhearted personality, the meeting point in both 

 serious discussions and the conviviality of youthful gladness." 



Fries was a man of practical bent, with a clear head and un- 

 wearied powers of work. It is not \^onderful, therefore, that he 

 should have been overwhelmed with official comn)issious. He was 

 Rector during the period 1893-99. In the eighties and nineties 

 he was ex officio a member of the educational committee, and an 

 active member also. He was also a member of many learned 

 academies and societies ; in 1865 he was chosen into the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, and in 1888 a Foreign Member of the 

 Linnean Society of London. 



Homage of another sort came to him in no stinted measure ; 

 we may recall how the University of Uppsala, on behalf of the 

 wide circle of the scientific world, devoted a unique celebration 

 on his SOrh birthday, barely half a year ago. The Swedish 

 Botanical Club devoted to him a large volume of essays from 35 

 writers, amounting to 600 pages, on whose first page we read: — 



" To the Swedish botanists' Xestor, Theodor Maguus Fries, 

 Lichenologist, Polar explorer, Museum builder, Linne-investi- 

 gator, the man who more than anj' other of his time had the 

 power to make botanic science known and loved in the whole of 

 our Country, the incomparable teacher and friend." 



With his death the old Uppsala times seem to have gone down 

 also into the grave. During 125 terms he saw bis beloved 

 University grow and flourish with renewed vigour, but whilst 

 much was altered, he could recall in his wonderful memory 

 occurrences iu the days of Elias Fries, Wabienberg. and the 

 historian Geijer (whose statue fronts the University) ; perhaps 

 the time may come when others may talk of Fries's Uppsala. 



The Linnean Bicentenary occasioned a vast amount of work 

 to fall upon Fries, in translating Linnean documents and scarce 

 pamphlets from Latin into Swedish, including the ' Flora lap- 

 ponica ' ; and only recently he finished supervising a new edition 

 of Linne's ' Iter lapponicum ' from the MS. possessed by this 

 Society. Six volumes of the Linnean correspondence have been 

 issued, accompanied by copious notes concerning men and things, 

 of which be seemed to have almost the monopoly, and the notes 

 are specially valuable and helpful to understanding many Linnean 

 albisions. He paid our Society several visits and took copious 

 notes of the Linnean MSS. which he wove into his splendid life 

 of Linne, apparently having, along with his earlier co-worker in 

 Linnean matters, Dr. Ewald Ahrling, extracted everything possible, 

 in an incredibly short tiuie. Those who knew him will preserve 

 a warm place in their hearts for a man whose death leaves a blank 

 M'hich it is hardly possible to fill. 



The strenuous work of the last few years seems to have told 

 upon the constitution of the Emeritus Professor. Last year he 

 was at times laid aside by short periods of indisposition, one of 



