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wasted with his body, and his earthly frame became 

 to him a burden. In this distressing state he con- 

 tinued for nearly twelve months, at' times suffering 

 great agony from his previous disease; and as the 

 powers of his constitution became exhausted, he be- 

 came insensible to pain, and expired in a gentle slumber 

 on the afternoon of the 10th January 1778, aged 

 seventy years and seven months. 



Thus terminated the active and ever-searching life 

 of this pious and illustrious man, depriving natural 

 history of her brightest ornament, and his country of 

 a fellow-citizen and professor, whose loss could not 

 be repaired throughout all Europe. Every human 

 honour was paid to his remains, and the sorrow of his 

 countrymen was without bounds. A general mourn- 

 ing was ordered at Upsala. To use the words of their 

 sovereign, they had " lost, alas! a man, whose celebrity 

 was as great all over the world, as the honour was bright 

 which his country derived from him as a citizen. Long 

 will Upsala remember the celebrity which it acquired 

 by the name of Linnceus ! " 



In foreign lands equal regard was paid to his memory. 

 He was eulogized in the Royal Academy by Condorcet 

 and Vicq d'Azyr, and his bust was erected under the 

 highest cedar in the Royal Gardens. Dr Hope, the 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 

 had a monument to his name erected in the Botanic 

 Garden. Many societies have been formed under the 

 auspices of his name, of which the most important was 



