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where the celebration of the Royal Academy of Sciences took place 

 at the Academy of Music at 2 p. m. The exercises here were 

 similar to those on the opening day at Upsala. A really beautiful 

 original cantata was sung, and, after a speech by the President of 

 the Academy, Count Morner, the Linnaean gold medal was bestowed 

 on Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. As owing to his great age, 89 years, 

 he could not be present, the medal was handed to the British Am- 

 bassador, to be transmitted to him. The delegates, native and 

 foreign, then presented their congratulations as at Upsala, this time, 

 however, America being at the end instead of at the head of the 

 procession. In the evening a grand dinner was given at the famous 

 Hasselbacken restaurant, known to all travelers, and the formal 

 festivites ended with a garden party by the Prince Regent on Sun- 

 day, the 26th. 



It is only necessary to add that all arrangements for the Linnefest 

 had been most carefully planned and were carried out without a 

 mishap. Our hosts were unsparing in their efforts to make our 

 visit pleasant. The labor of preparing for so elaborate a festival 

 must have been very great, for not only were the details of the meet- 

 ings complicated, but in honor of Linnaeus different learned bodies 

 prepared a considerable number of volumes relating to Linnaeus and 

 his work and influence, which must have been very costly both in 

 preparing and printing. 



No naturalist was ever so completely honored by his countrymen 

 as was Linnaeus. 



