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HOxNOURS PAID TO THE 



The memory of Linn/eus was equally reverenced at home and 

 abroad. John Hope, professor of Botany at Edinburgh^ who died in 

 17865 opened his autumnal leftures in 1778, with a panegyric on Lin- 

 N.«us, and had a monument eretled to him with this inscription : 



« LINNJEO POSUIT J. HOPE:' 



Professor Alston, his predecessor, had been one of the most rigo- 

 rous anti-sexualists and opponents of Linnaeus. A fine contrast ap- 

 peared, however, under Hope, and the same thing happened at Helmstadt, 

 where Be iris, the successor of the implacable Heister, preached to 

 his pupils the greatness of Linn^us, and instilled into their minds 

 iove and veneration towards him. 



At the meeting of the royal academy of sciences at Paris, Condor- 

 CET read a panegyric upon Linnaeus; and M. Vicq d'Azyr made 

 also his eulogium at the meeting of the Parisian medical society (Societe 

 dc Medicine), which was founded in 1776. The Chevalier Thunberg 

 had already, in 1779, sent to the royal academy of sciences at Paris 

 some of the most interesting particulars of the life of Linn/eus taken 

 from his own diary. The purport of the contents of the panegyric 

 delivered by M. Viq d'Azyr, has already been circumstantially 

 stated in the beginning of this seftion. The Duke de Noailles 



<' Descartes (Queen Christina of Snveden, called the latter to Stockholm, where he 

 "died in 1650; but his remains were afterwards removed to Pari/), who as neglefled in 

 " his country after his death, as he had been disregarded there during his life, still expefls 

 '* of his fellow citizens those honours which foreign nations were eager to lavish upon him. 

 »' See Eloge de M. ds Linne, dans PHistoire de VAcad. Roy. des Sciences, Paris 1781." — 

 The author of this biography knows nothing of this monument, and the plan of raising one 

 m the cathedral of Upal is of a quite recent date. 



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