MEMOIR OF LTNNJEUS. 80 



The Academy of Stockholm caused his portrait to 

 be engraved at Paris ; a monument was erected to 

 him at Edinburgh ; and another by the Duke of 

 Noailles in his garden ; the latter was a cenotaph 

 with a bust, and a medallion bearing an appropriate 

 inscription. His name was assumed by Botanical 

 Societies in different parts of Europe ; and the 

 learned of all nations seemed to vie with each other 

 in the sincerity of their regret for his loss. The 

 Academy of Belles Lettres and History at Stock- 

 holm, instituted a prize for the best eulogium upon 

 him, to be composed in Latin, French, or Italian. 

 The King of Sweden caused a medal to be struck, 

 on one side of which was the head of Linnaeus, and 

 on the obverse a mourning Cybele, surrounded by 

 animals and plants, with the motto " Deam luctus 

 angit amissi" The terms in which his Majesty 

 expressed himself before the Diet of the States, 

 show how deeply he felt the loss which Science had 

 sustained by the death of its greatest ornament. 

 " I shall never forget (says he) those marks of 

 attachment which I received in the University of 

 Upsala before I mounted the throne. There I 

 founded a new chair ; but, alas ! I have lost a man 

 whose renown filled the universe, and whom Sweden 

 will ever be proud to number among her children. 

 Long will this ancient city remember how much 

 of her celebrity she owes to him who bears the 

 name of Linnaeus." 



After so many tokens of regard lavished upon 



