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ground, and the Linn^a placed at the breaft. 

 This is faid, by all who knew the profelTor, to 

 bear the greateft likenefs. We regret that it is 

 not in our power to defcribe the medals which were 

 ftruck in honour of Linn^^us by order of feveral 

 noblemen of the firft diftindion in Sweden, parti- 

 cularly that by Count T effin's diredion, fince that 

 nobleman was among the firft who difcerned and 

 patronized the merit of our author, and ever bore 

 to it the moft public and honourable teftimony. 

 This LiNN^^us hath acknowledged in the warmeft 

 effufions of gratitude. 



It hath been obferved before, that the profeflbr 

 married the daughter of Dr. More, the provincial 

 phyfician of Balekarlia, foon after he fettled at 

 Stockholm, in 1739- This lady furvived him; 

 and he has left a fon, named Charles, and four 

 daughters. The younger Linn^us was demonftra- 

 tor in the botanical garden at Upfal, fo early as 

 the year 1762 having in that, and the fucceeding 

 year, publiflied two Decads of rare Plants, lately 

 raifed there, accompanied with the figures. Not 

 long after he was conftituted joint profeflbr in the 

 botanical chair with his father ; and of late years 

 entirely occupied that department. Since the, death 

 of his father, we learn that he has obtained fome 

 of his employments, particularly the profeflbrfhip 

 of the theory of phyfic ; and has refigned that of 

 botany in favour of Dr. Thunherg. It has been faid, 

 that he intends to publifti a Mantissa tertia, 

 which his father left nearly finifhed alfo feveral 

 colledions of plants v^hich had been fent to Lin- 



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