MEMORY OF LINN^US. 247 

 instituted there a new professorship. — But i have lost, alas! 



*' A MAN, WHOSE CELEBRITY WAS AS GREAT ALL OVER THE WORLD 

 " AS THE HONOUR WAS BRIGHT WHICH HIS COUNTRY DERIVED 

 FROM HIM AS A CITIZEN. LoNG WILL UpSAL REMEMBER THE 

 *' CELEBRITY WHICH IT ACQUIRED BY THE NAME OF aLiNN^EUs!" 



On the 5th of December in the same year, the King was himself 

 present at the meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences, when Dean 

 BvECK, one of the oldest friends of Linnaeus, delivered the comme- 

 moration speech, which we had already occasion thus frequently to 

 mention in this work. The King also rendered farther homage to the 

 merits of Linn^us by a gold medal which he ordered to be struck. 

 It was executed by the masterly hand of Lynngberger, one of the 

 first artists Sweden ever produced. On one side the medal represented 

 the portrait of Linnaeus, with the Linncea Borealis, encompassed with 

 this inscription 1 



" Carolus Linn^us, Arch. Reg. Eques Auratus." On the 

 other side appears the figure of Cybele, or nature in a sad and mourn- 

 ful posture, holding a key in her left hand, and surrounded with ani- 

 mals, plants, and other emblems of natural history. Among the ani- 

 mals a bear is to be distinguished, on whose back jumps an ape; — = 

 this is probably an allusion to the following latin words, already men= 

 tioned at the conclusion of Se6l. VI. of this biography : — " ringentium 

 *' Satyrorum cachinnos, meisque humeris insilienihm Cercophitliecorum 

 " exultationes sustinui." — It was in these words, our readers will re- 

 member, LiNNyEus had described his condu6l towards his opponents 

 in the last edition of his System of Nature. The forbear- 

 ance and greatness which charaderized his condu6l is extremely 

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