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These were the last fruits of the aftivity of a man whose whole life 

 had been uninterrupted enthusiasm and merit. Meanwhile his fame 

 spread all over the world, nay farther, perhaps, than that of any learned 

 man of our age ever reached. He was every where freely acknow- 

 ledged and revered as the first man in the science which he cultivated. 

 The different academies of Europe vied with each other, which of them 

 should first have the honour of elefting Linn/Eus one of their mem- 

 bers. He experienced also the flattering distinflion which had never 

 before been the lot of any Northern genius, to be received in 1762, as 

 an ordinary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, after 

 he had been its corresponding member ever since the year 1738. This, 

 for a foreigner, was deemed a very particular mark of respe£l by Barons 

 Leibnitz, Haller, Van Swieten, and the great anatomist Mor- 

 GAGNi at Padua*. The Royal Society of London followed this ex- 

 ample in the year 1763. In 1762 Linnaus also became a member of 

 the British CEconomical Society, and in 1772 Honorary Member of 

 the Physical College at JEdinbitrgh. The Academy of Florence chose 

 him in 1759, that of Drontheim in 1766, that of Cell in 1767, that of 

 Rotterdam in 1771, that of Sienna in the same year, and diat of Bern 

 in 1772. He was eleBed Fellow of the Royal Patriotic Society in 

 Sweden in 1775, and shortly before his death also became a member 

 of the Medical Society of Paris (Societe de Medecine) which was first 

 first instituted in the year 1776. The greatest academy in a distant 

 part of the world, that of Philadelphia, also brightened her records by 



• The person who replaced Linn^us in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, was 

 Sir John Pringle, Bart. The only eminent men in Sweden, who could boast of such 

 ^ an honour after th« death of LjjjmjEus, were professor Bergmann and the Chevalier 

 Wargbntim. 



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