16 MEMOIR OF LINNiEUS. 



est ornament, and his country of a fellow-citizen and professor, 

 whose loss could not be repaired throughout all Europe. Every 

 human honor was paid to his remains, and the sorrow of his 

 countrymen was without bounds. A general mourning was or- 

 dered at Upsala. To quote the words of their sovereign, they 

 had " lost, alas ! a man, whose celeh-ity was as great all over the world, 

 as the honor was bright which his country derived from him as a citi- 

 zen. Long will Upsala remember the celebrity which it acquired by 

 the name of LinncBus !" 



In foreign lands equal regard was paid to his memory. He 

 was eulogised in the Royal Academy by Condorcet and Vicq d' 

 Azyr, and his bust was erected under the highest cedar in the 

 Royal Gardens. Dr. Hope, the Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, had a monument to his name erected in the 

 botanic garden. Many societies have been formed under the 

 auspices of his name, of which the most important was instituted 

 in 1788, by the exei-tion of the late Sir James (then Dr.) Edward 

 Smith. This possesses the whole library, herbaria, and manu- 

 scripts of the illustrious person whom it records. They were 

 purchased by the members, at the demise of their respected 

 founder and president, and they rightly judged that the Linngean 

 Society o" London was the only place where these monuments of 

 his labors and abilities could be with propriety deposited. 



