MEMORY OF LINNAEUS, 



GUSTAVUS III. 



UT BONIS ARTIBUS ET PR.tSERTlM SCIENTI^ IN GENTIS LAUDEM, A CAROLO 

 LINN^O AD FASTIGIUM EVECT.E SIMULQUE MEMORI^ CONSECRARET AU- 

 SPICIA, QUIBUS FILIUS 



GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS 



ACADEMIAM UPSALIENSEM TUETUR, HAS ^DES EXSTRUERE VOLUIT, PRIMIS 

 SUA MANU LOCATIS FUNDAMENTIS DIE XVII. AUG. M.D.CC.LXXXVII. 



— " To promote the Studies, and especially the science ^vhich Ltx- 

 " N^us, to the honour of his nation, has brought to the highest pitch 



of perfeftion, and to preserve the remembrance of the Chancellor- 



ship of the University of Upsal, the funftions of which were exer- 

 *« cised by the Prince Royal Gustavus Adolpiius, these buildings 

 « have been raised, and the foundation-stone thereto laid, August l yth, 

 "1787, with his own hands, by Gustavus III." 



The honourable manner, in which the name of Linnaeus was 

 mentioned in the letter of donation of the new botanical garden, has 

 been already stated in the seventh seftion. 



The great and elevated Queen Ulrica Louisa, mother to the late 

 King of Sweden, who died in 1782, venerated Linn.eus as devoutly 

 as her son. When Linn^us was alive, she had his portrait cast in the 

 form of a medallion by the celebrated Archeveque, exhibited in the 

 apartments of the palace at Drottningholm, in front of the portraits of 

 Keingenstiern a, de Geer, and other illustrious Swedes*. 



The 



* «' After the death of Linn^us," say Condorcet, «' the King of Saveden caused a 

 « monument to be erefted to him, by the .ide of that which the same prince had consecrated to 



" Descartes 



