2 J. V. HULTKEANTZ 



a number of important new documents in illustration of the question. 

 The above-mentioned sources furnish the basis for the historical inves- 

 tigation which constitutes the first section of this work. In the second 

 section there is furnished an extended account of the progress and 

 results of the examination of the casket and its contents, and especi- 

 ally of the anatomical examination of the cranium. A condensed report 

 of the results was comnmnicated by the Committee to the Royal So- 

 ciety of Sciences on December 3rd, 1908, which at a meeting on the 4th 

 of the same month decided to publish a complete account of the investi- 

 gations concerning Swedenboeg's earthly remains in connection with 

 the Society's Bicentenary Jubilee in November, 1910, since the Society 

 is able with thankfulness and pride to reckon Emanuel Swedenboeg as 

 one of its first and especially as one of its greatest members. 



The final preparation of this work was entrusted by the Com- 

 mittee to the undersigned, who desires here thankfully to acknowledge 

 not only the valuable cooperation of the Committee in the anatomical 

 investigation, but also and especially the very considerable labor be- 

 stowed by Professor Clason on the historical investigations. Mr. Alfred 

 H. Stegh, M. a., and the present pastor at the Swedish Legation in 

 London, the Rev. J. Lindskog, who have placed at the disposal of the 

 Committee certain important documents and on various occasions obli- 

 gingly supplied serviceable information, have done much to aid in the 

 preparation of this work. Mr. Stegh has supplied the List and Analysis 

 of Portraits of Swedenborg furnished in Appendix No. 16, and he and 

 Miss Cyeiel L,t. Odhnee have also translated the present work into the 

 English language. In the other Appendices a number of documents have 

 been added in explanation of various questions, which documents have 

 either not hitherto been published, or are unusually difficult of access, 

 and which were therefore thought worthy of reproduction in extenso. 



Upsala University, October, 1910. 



J. ViLH. HuLTKEANTZ. 



