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HONOURS PAID TO THE 



did not obtain the approbation of that learned body. Many other 

 essays were afterwards delivered, but would not answer. At last, the 

 academy received an elegant inscription, which was sent with the motto : 

 " At Pia Thura feram." — It was the produftion of Mr. Gunn ar Back- 

 man n, a Swedish literatus, to whom the prize medal was adjudged ac- 

 cordingly by the academy at their meeting, held March 20th, 1792; 

 and this inscription has been engraved upon the monument t. 



The late King, whose merits were so great, and who had esteemed 

 LiNNvEUs while he still was Prince Royal, and rewarded him as 

 King, conferred farther honours upon his memory. When the Swedish 

 diet was convened for the second time during his reign in the year 

 1778, he ordered his chancellor, at the opening of the Pleni Plenoruvif 

 or the four states of the kingdom, to read a sketch of his government 

 and enterprises, during ihe six preceding years. In this sketch his 

 Majesty mentioned the death of Linn^us in the following honourable 

 and flattering manner : 



The University of i/psal has also attra6led my attention. Always 

 " will I remember with pleasure, that the chancellorship of that Univer- 

 «' sity was entrusted to me, before I ascended the throne • I have also 



" quitatura Stockholmiensi, duplici praemio et exteros et indigenas ad certamen vocavit, tarn 

 *' ad consignanduni Eulogium Linn^i, quam adi nscriptionemmonumenti,inejus honorem 

 " erigendi, quorum tamen neutrum hoc usque tale Academiae exhibitum est, nt praemio ornari 

 potuerit, Erigetur vero mon'^mentum lapideum vel bustum Linn^i in frontispicio novarum 

 aedium Horti et professiorris Botanicae nostra; Academiae, quae regiis impensis magnifice nunc 

 exstruuntur." 



•f Since the death of the late King, the admirers of Linn^us in Siueden have rais«d a 

 public subscription throughout the kingdom, to ereft him a monument of Swedish norphyzy 

 to LiNN^us in the cathedral at Upsal. The Chevalier Sergell has been charged with 

 its execution, and considerable sums had already been subscribed in the beginning of 

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