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body, and even to have inherited his father's looks^but 

 vsrithout his energy, his activity, his consciousness 

 of talent, or his love of adulation. He was, on the 

 contrary, gentle and retired. Had he really been 

 endowed with genius similar to that of his parent, 

 he must have distinguished his career, brief as it 

 was, by some meritorious performance. But it is 

 no doubt wisely ordered that superiority of intellect 

 should not, like the distinctions conferred by birth 

 and fortune, be hereditary. 



His remains were solemnly deposited, on the 30th 

 of November, in the cathedral at Upsal, close to 

 those of his father. A funeral oration was pro- 

 nounced by M. Von Schulzenheim ; and as the 

 male line of the family had become extinct, his coat 

 of arms was broken in pieces. The gardener of the 

 university then strewed flowers over the grave " of 

 a generation that," to use the words of one of its 

 historians, " will remain great and imperishable as 

 long as the earth, and Nature, and her science shall 

 exist I" 



After the death of this young man, the collections, 

 library, and even the manuscripts, of his father, 

 were offered for sale, and purchased by Sir James 

 Edward Smith, the founder of the Linnsean So- 

 ciety of London. They are now in the posses- 

 sion of that illustrious body, whose labours have 

 tended so much to forward the progress of natural 

 history in general, and of botany in particular. 

 The herbarium, which is contained in two deal 

 presses, similar to the model described in the Phi- 

 losophia Botanica, is to the botanist an object of 

 great interest, and has been the means of elucidat- 

 ing many doubtful points. The building in which 



