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lowing inscription engraved on a tablet of beauti- 
ful Swedish porphyry 
BOTANICORUM PRINCEPS, 
AMICI ET DISCIPULI, 
MDCCXCVIII. 
In foreign lands equal regard was paid to his 
memory. He was eulogized in the Royal Acad- 
emy of France by Condorcet, and his bust was 
erected under the highest cedar in the Jardin des 
Plantes. Dr. Hope, the Professor of Botany in 
the University of Edinburg, had a monument 
erected to his name in the botanic garden. 
Many societies have been formed under the 
auspices of his name, of which the most import- 
ant was the Linnean Society of London, which 
possesses the library, herbarium and manuscripts 
of the illustrious person whom if records. is 
statue was of middle size and muscular; his fea- 
tures were agreeable, and his countenance ani- 
mated; his eyes remarkably bright, ardent and 
piercing. He wrote and spoke the Latin lan- 
guage with elegance and ease, and Swedish the 
only modern language he is known to have used. 
In following out his beloved science his mind 
was ardént in the highest degree ; he never, how- 
ever, lost sight of the First Great Cause, but 
iooked to Nature’s God as the giver of all his 
benefits and acquirements. The most important 
of his works commence and finish with some 
verse from the Scriptures, implying the power or 
greatness of God, or his own gratitude to Provi- 
dence for the immense benefits conferred upon 
