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have been variously conceived by different authors, but 

 they appear to be Cucurbitacece.' l 



Into a darkness quieted by hope ; 



Plucker of amaranths grown beneath God's eye 



In gracious twilights where his chosen lie. 2 



A good man's biography whispers to us to ' bear and 

 forbear even as he did, to endure to the end,' so that 

 one day we may meet and know this friend of our souls. 



Linnasus died on January 10, 1778, ' aged seventy, 

 seven months and seven days, with the nation to guard 

 his good name.' The remains of this celebrated man 

 were interred at Upsala Cathedral, and the funeral pro- 

 cession was composed of members of the whole uni- 

 versity, the pall being supported by sixteen doctors of 

 physic, all of whom had been his pupils. A general 

 mourning took place at Upsala, and the king, Gustavus 

 III., ordered a medal to be struck expressive of the 

 public loss, one side of which exhibits the bust of the 

 great naturalist, with his name ; the reverse shows 

 Cybele in an attitude of grief, holding in her left hand 

 a key, and surrounded by animals and plants. 



He will, and so shall we, gain the key to all know- 

 ledge in the life to come. Second childhood comes to 

 us here, the second manhood in the life eternal. 

 So oft a better life this life conceals. 



The king likewise attended a meeting of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, of which Linna3us 

 had been the first president, and in his speech from the 

 1 Trans. Linn. Society. 2 Sordello. 



