320 LINN^US. 



holm, offered a prize for the best panegyric in La- 

 tin, French, or Italian. One written in French 

 was received in 1786, but the Academy judging it 

 unsuitable, offered a second prize, which in 1792 was 

 conferred on Mr Gunnar Baekmann, a Swede. The 

 late Dr Hope of Edinburgh erected to his memory, 

 in the botanic garden there, a monument bearing the 

 simple inscription, " Linnseo posuit, J. Hope ;" and 

 the Due d'Ayen-Noailles placed in his garden a ce- 

 notaph, with the bust of the naturalist in a medallion, 

 surrounded by the Linncea and Ayenia, — the latter 

 plant having been dedicated to himself. Three 

 eloges or panegyrics were pronounced ; the first by 

 his friend Dean Back, at a meeting of the Royal 

 Society of Stockholm ; the second by M. Condor- 

 cet, in the Parisian Academy of Sciences; the 

 third by M. Vicq d'Azyr, in the Medical Society of 

 Paris. In 17^7^ an association was formed in that 

 city, under the name of La Societe Linneenne, 

 which subsequently changed its designation into 

 that of Societe d'Histoire Naturelle. In 1788, the 

 Linnsean Society of London was established by Dr 

 Smith and other admirers of the Swedish sage; 

 and in 1 7^0, another, bearing the same appellation, 

 was constituted at Leipsic. It is unnecessary to 

 mention all the honours that have been paid to this 

 illustrious professor, as his name has been distin- 

 guished in all civilized countries beyond that of 

 any cultivator of natural history, and in our own 

 is as familiar as that of Newton or Herschel. We 

 shall therefore conclude with stating, that in 1822 

 the students of the university of which he had so 

 long been the chief ornament, resolved to erect a 

 statue as a token of their admiration of his charac- 



