SECTION X. 



REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES ATTENDING THE LIFE OF 

 LINNjEUS, from THE YEAR 1760 TO HIS DEATH,. 

 JANUARY THE TENTH, 1778. 



:merits of linn"^.us in the medical science.— his various medical WRIT- 

 INGS.— anecdotes.— unfair CRITICISM of M. VICO D'AZY R. — REFUTATION 

 OF THAT CRITICISM.— APOLOGY OF ASSESSOR HEDIN.— MERITORIOUS EFFORTS 

 OF LINNAUS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL REIGN.— HIS CLAS- 

 SIFICATION OF THE MINERAL REIGN.— HIS LAST LEARNED LABOURS.— LIN- 

 N.tUS WAS A MEMBER OF TWENTY ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES.— HIS WORKS 

 SERVE AS THE ELEMENTARY BASIS OF NATURAL HISTORY, ESPECIALLY IN 

 SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.— EXTRAORDINARY PRESENT MADE HIM BY LORD 

 BALTIMORE.— OTHER PRESENTS.— HIS GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES.— HIS PENSION.— 

 HONORARY BESTOWED ON HIM FOR HIS WORKS.— HIS RURAL ESTATES.— 

 RESPECTFUL HOMAGE RENDERED TO HIM BY SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS AND 

 MONARCHS.— VENERATION MANIFESTED BY THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, J. J. 

 ROUSSEAU FOR LINNi£US.— LINN.^US IS ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH 

 BIBLE.— COMMISSION.— HIS EXTENSIVE CORRESPONDENCE —PARTICULARS OF 

 THE LATTER END OF THE LIFE OF LINN.tUS.— HIS LAST PUBLIC ORATION. 

 HIS ENTHUSIASTIC STUDY OF NATURE EVEN IN HIS OLD AGE.— BENEFICI AL 

 AND DETRIMENTAL INFLUENCE OF THAT STUDY. UPON HIS HEAJ.TH.— HI3 

 lETTER TO MR. PENNANT.— HE SUFFERS AN APOPLECTIC STROKE.— ANECDOTE. 

 DECAY OF HIS MENTAL FACULTIES —HIS MISERABLE CONDITION.- OTI ER 

 ANECDOTES.— DEATH OF LINNyEUS — HONOURALE TRIBUTE PAID TO HIS ME- 

 MORY.— GUST AVUS III. LATE KING OF SWEI>EN, PUBLICLY LAMENTS HIS LOSS, 

 AND ORDERS A MEDAL TO BE STRUCK IN REM EMBRA NCE OF HIM.— GUS TAVUS 

 III. IMMORTALIZES THE HONOUR OF LINN.EUS'S NAME IN THE HISTORY OF 

 THE UNIVERSITY. AT UPSAL.— MONUMENT ERECTED TO IJNN-£US. — PRIZES 

 OFFERED FOR A PANEGYRIC UPON LINN.EUS.— QUEEN ULRICA LOUISA OF 

 SWEDEN. — ANECDOTES. — HONOURS PAID TO THE MEMORY OF LINN.LUS 

 IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.— LINN^AN SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND LEIPSIC— 

 PORTRAITS OF LINN^US.— LEARNED INHERITANCE LEFT BEHIND HIM— COM3S 

 IN THE POSSESSION OF JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M. D. OF LONDON.— CIRCUM- 

 STANCES ATTENDING THE SALE OF THOSE TREASURES Of SCIENCE.— ANEC-- 



D.OTES,— 



