The Mortal Remains of Swedenborg 



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solderers were at hand. On the way to the church a maker of plaster 

 casts was visited in order to ha-\-e easts of the slvull made. 



WÅHLIN, Jr.. says concerning this: »Soon after on the occasion 

 of another burial, when the vault was opened, the skull was redepo- 

 sited. At that time a cast of the skull was taken in the presence of 

 the pastor, a member of the Nordensköld family and the trustees. Only 

 three casts were taken, with a moral obligation that their number should 



Figs. Û— 4. Reproduclion of the plaster cast, taken in 1S23, of tlie slîull replaced in Swedf.nborg's coffin. 



not be multiplied. One of these casts is [in 1S69] in the possession 

 of Mr. WÅHLIN in Stockholm; another is in Frugard in Finland in the 

 possession of one of the branches of the Nordensköld family; and the 

 third cast is in the possession, we believe, of another branch of the 

 Nordensköld family in Sweden». 3-2 (Vol. II., p. 1208). 



The Frugård cast is still in existence: there is a reproduction 

 of it (Figs. 3 and 4) in the possession of Professor Gustaf Retztus of 

 Stockholm, who has very kindly placed the same at our disposal for 

 this investigation. 



