interested herself in the education of his son, and was 
altogether gracious and obliging in all that concerned 
him, promoting his wishes and his interest, whenever 
opportunity offered. She took so much pleasure in the 
conversation of her ‘Gstinguished naturalist, that she 
ow! moking, even 
might continue his 
were 
his services accepted without suitable returns of royal 
munifice 
In arse he received, from the hand of his sovereign, 
free exercise oe his 
appointme This 
nzeus, who ‘albaed oat if he had = merits, the 
due to his own country. triotic nance 
received its just reward in ssovenles 1756, when he was 
raised to the rank of Swedish nobility, and took the 
name of Von Linné. © 
As the habits of Linnzeus were temperate and regular, 
he retained his health and vigor in tolerable perfection, 
notwithstanding the immense labors . his mind 
be, when his m 
and materially affected his faculties. He died of a 
the kin e 
the throne, in which he did justice to ein splexlaia 
ents and acquirements of his illustrious subject, and 
te shea. his royal sympathy with the sorrow of a whole 
natio n, in their irreparable loss. Nor was this sorrow 
he narrow bounds of his ey soil: the 
d become inti- 
m he was lr felt 
Eulogies were pro- 
nounced in the several alate institutions of which 
was a member. ' In his own cou 
general mourning proclaimed at U 
q © pe 
the whole University, the pall being supported by sixteen 
doctors of physic, all of bees had been his pupi 
ive years after this, the remains of his aye son 
(then in his nailaria year, successor to is father 
in his botanical professorship, which he supported with 
ability) were laid by the side of the parent, the family 
coat of ar pat over them, and their mingled ashes 
strewed with flow 
