Tribute to the Memory of Linnaus. 14d 



III. Tribute to the Memory of Linnaeus. 



NO literary character, in modern times, has 

 been more universally respected, and even venerated, 

 than the celebrated Linnaeus. His name is familiarly 

 known in every civilized portion of the world ; and 

 although many of his theoretical opinions are now 

 generally neglected ; although not a few of the learned 

 have seceded from his methodical arrangements of 

 animals and of minerals; and although even his sexu- 

 al SYSTEM, or arrangement of vegetables, is found to 

 be, in many respects, imperfect, and liable to objec- 

 tions, which seem to show, that it also must, in 

 time, give way to an arrangement less artificial, if not 

 more facile ; yet the name and services of this extra- 

 ordinary man will live in the remembrance of future 

 ages : nay, will, in all probability, survive the de- 

 struction of many of the species which he has so ably 

 described. 



Linnaeus died, at Upsal, in the month of January, 

 1778, aged seventy years and eight months. The 

 King of Sweden ordered a medal to be struck to his 

 memory. On the face is represented the bust, with 

 the name, of the great naturalist : on the reverse, Cy- 

 bele afflicted, holding in her hand a key, surround- 

 ed by animals and plants, with this motto : 



Deam liictus anglt amis si; 



