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of the Myrtle family, as the truest way by which 
he could express his gratitude for the great dis- 
tinetions conferred upon himself. And it was in 
the same year that he received the first fatal 
warning that the termination of his earthly career 
was near at hand. While he gave a summer lec- 
ture in the botanical lecture room he had an apo- 
plectic stroke, and fell into a swoon from which 
powers of his constitution became exhausted, he 
became insensible to pain, and expired in a gentle 
slumber January 10, 1778, aged seventy-one years 
and seven months. 
Thus terminated, writes Sir William Jardine, 
the active and ever-searching life of this pious 
and industrious man. Every human honor was 
paid to his remains, and the sorrow of his country 
was without bounds. 'I'o use the words of their 
sovereign, they had ‘lost, alas! a man whose 
celebrity was as great over the world “is the 
honor was bright which his country derived from 
him as a citizen. Long will Upsala remember the 
celebrity it acquired by the name of Linnzeus.”’ 
His sovereign commanded a medal to be struck 
expressive of the public loss. 
Linneus, the pride of Upsala, lies interred 
under a stone near the main door of the cathe- 
dral, with his much loved wife by his side. At 
a short distance from it there is a bust of Linneus 
cut in alto-relievo in black marble, and the fol- 
