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uppermost a rather well preserved cranium, the position of which (altogether 

 inverted) proved that the same had been displaced. 



After the ahove points had been established the oaken coffin was again 

 closed, after which the burial vault was covered up. Count Wrangel communicat- 

 ed that it was his intention to acquire further instructions regarding the treatment 

 of the remains. 



In lidem 



AucLSTiN Beck-Fkus. 



Legation Councillor at the Royal Legation in London. 



Attested by 



Herman AVhancel. 



No. 11. 



Proceedings preparatory to transporting- Swedenborgs remains to 

 Sweden, in tlie Swedish Cliurcli, London, April 7tli, 1908. 



Minutes kept at the renewed examination of the coffin of Ema- 

 nuel Swedenborg in the Swedish Church in London, April 7th, 1908. 

 Present: The Royal Minister, Count Wrangel, the Legation preacher, 

 Pastor J. Lindskog, the Adjutant to the chief of the cruiser »Fylgia» 

 Captain Hilmer Bergmark of the Royal Navy, a foreman and 6 laborers 

 from the London Necropolis Company, and tlip undersigned, who was 

 -requested to keep the minutes. 

 After the burial vault had been opened and the lid of Emanuel Swedenborg's 

 coffin had again been lifted up, the lid of the leaden coffin was cut open in its entire 

 length, upon which it was ascertained that the lower, hitherto unexamined por- 

 tion of the coffin, contained, besides some very much decayed and hardly visible 

 fragments of bones, a not inconsiderable quantity of half decayed remnants of 

 wood, probabljr arising from the original wooden coffin. In order to prevent, as 

 far as possible, the displacement of the remains contained in the coffin from the 

 position in which they were found, the coffin was filled up over the remains with 

 wadding, after which the leaden lid was again brought into its former position. 

 It proved to be impossible, for technical reasons, to again solder the leaden 

 coffin. After the lid of the older oaken coffin had again been screwed on, the 

 coffin was lifted up out of the burial vault into the church, and was there sealed 

 with four seals, two of which were the seals of His Royal Majesty's Legation in 

 London, and — the seal of the Swedish Church not being obtainable, — two 

 private seals of the Royal Minister. 



