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that his sufferings daily increased, until, worn out 

 with disease, he expired on the 10th January 177^, 

 in the 71st year of his age. According to the re- 

 port of his son, in a letter to Mutis, he died of a 

 gouty suppression of urine, terminating in gangrene. 



The honours paid to the memory of this great 

 naturalist were correspondent to the high estima- 

 tion in which he was held. His death was regarded 

 as an irreparable loss to science ; and he is said to 

 have " carried to the grave, with the grief of his 

 fellow-citizens, the admiration of the learned of all 

 countries. Upsal was in deep sorrow on the day of 

 his funeral." His body was conveyed to the ca- 

 thedral, where it was committed to the tomb. 

 Eighteen doctors, who had been of the number of 

 his pupils, supported the pall, and all the professors, 

 officers, and students of the university, followed in 

 procession. 



The king, Gustavus III., ordered a medal to 

 be struck in commemoration of him who had con- 

 tributed so essentially to elevate the Swedish cha- 

 racter in the scientific world; and in 1778, at 

 a convention of the Diet, expressed himself in the 

 following terms : — " The University of Upsal has 

 also attracted my attention. I shall always re- 

 member with pleasure that the chancellorship of 

 that university was intrusted to me before I as- 

 cended the throne. I have instituted in it a new 

 professorship ; but, alas ! I have lost a man whose 

 renown filled the world, and whom his country will 

 ever be proud to reckon among her children. Long 

 will Upsal remember the celebrity which it acquir- 

 ed by the name of Linnaeus." The Academy of 

 Belles Lettres, History, and Antiquities of Stock- 



