74 BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN 



reptiles), fishes, insects, and worms. His work greatly 

 reformed natural history in more ways than one. 



Linnaeus was the recipient of most of the honours 

 awarded to men of science, and was a botanist of world- 

 wide renown. 



He died of apoplexy on 10th January 1778. He 

 received a public funeral, and was buried in the Swedish 

 capital. 



Of posthumous honours erected to his memory, the 

 most noted are the various Linnsean societies of the world. 

 He was a man of great energy, untiring zeal and devotion 

 to science, an enthusiast, a powerful lecturer, who com- 

 municated to his pupils the ideas and materials of his life's 

 work, and withal a kind-hearted gentleman. 



