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from other narrators. Admiral Nokuenskjöld ascribes the events re- 

 counted in ihe letter to the year 1827 instead of 1823, which is clearly 

 a mistake. This follows unequivocally from the full biographical state- 

 ments which are given in A. Hammakskjold's work on the Norden- 

 skjöld family 8 (pp. 32 and 17), and according to which Admiral Noe- 

 DENSKJÖLD visited London as well during the spring of 1823 as during the 

 year 1827, whereas, on the other hand, his relative, the Master of 

 Mines and afterwards Minister of State, N. G. Nokdenskjold ', whom 

 the Admiral in the letter mentions having met in London, and who 

 was the means of his becoming acquainted with Mr. Tulk, stayed in 

 England only during the year 1823. 



That the cranium was replaced in the last-named year, is fur- 

 thermore corroborated by the articles in the Times and Intellectual Re- 

 posuory for 1823, and by a note in Wahlin's Dagsländor {Appendix^ 

 No. 5), which relates that Swedenborg's cranium was on the 25th of 

 March, 1823, replaced in the coffin in the presence of Mr, Tulk, the 

 Master of Mines Nordenskjold and Pastor Wâhlin. 



The most detailed account of the last-mentioned occurrence is 

 given in Admiral Nordenskjold's letter; it is completed in some de- 

 tails by the above-cited statements of the WÅhlins, Senior and Junior. 

 — After it had become known in Sweden that SwEDENBORa's cranium 

 had been taken out of the coffin, »a Swedish countess S»^, an enthusi- 

 astic adherent of the doctrines of Swedenborg and already previously 

 acquainted with Tulk, turned herself to the latter with a moving re- 

 quest that the cranium should be redeposited in the coffin. (According 

 to »Tertius intervenions» the decision concerning this measure had al- 

 ready been resolved upon before the lady's wish had become known.) 

 The skull was, therefore, taken by the above-mentioned persons to the 

 Swedish Church, on the 25th of March, where it was replaced in Swe- 

 denborg's casket, which contained »only a little dust, some hairs, and 

 rags of the shroud», after which the lid was screwed down. The leaden 

 coffin was in such a condition that it could not be soldered, although 



^ Nils Gustaf Nordenskjold, boiii 1792. Master of Mines in Finland, 1818; received 

 the title of Minister of State in 1845. In 1819 — 23 he undertooic a foreign journey, during 

 which England was visited last. Died in 1866. — Nordenskjold was the father of A. E. Nor. 

 DENSKIÖLD, the polar explorer. 



'^ Presumably Countess Margareth.4 Catharina von Schwerin, née Ramsay, born 1776, 

 after 1818 widow of the Master of Horse, Major General Adolf Ludvig von Schwerin. Count- 

 ess VON Schwerin died in Stockholm, 1858. 



