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for Mr. Hunter, whilst Professor Linneus1 went to call Dr. Heberden 
and Dr. Pitcairne. All these gentlemen have been with him, and the 
necessary remedies prescribed. I dare not say what the event will be, 
but am not without hopes, notwithstanding the extreme danger with 
which you know all paralytic strokes are attended. It was found 
impossible to move him; Lady Banks has therefore been so kind as 
to order an apartment for him in her house, and I shall quit him as 
little as possible, particularly not to-night. You may judge of the 
affliction of every one here. I am so much affected myself that I 
know not what to say to you, but that I am most affectionately yours, 
C. BLagpEn. 
It is a striking testimony of the regard in which 
Solander was held, that the foremost physicians of the 
day should be summoned to his side at the moment of 
attack, and that the son and successor of his botanical 
preceptor should be one of the messengers in search of 
medical aid. All efforts were unavailing to prolong his 
life, for he died at Soho Square on the 16th of the same 
month. 
He is stated to have been a short, fair man, somewhat 
stout, with small eyes, and a good-humoured expression of 
countenance. The genus Solandra is his botanical memorial, 
named after him by his fellow-countryman, Swartz. A full- 
length portrait of him, by an unknown artist, in the posses- 
sion of the Linnean Society (to which body it was given by 
R. A. Salisbury), is here reproduced. 
1 Carl von Linné, son of the eminent naturalist. 
