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MEMOIR OF LINNAEUS. 
est ornament, and his country of a fellow-citizen and professor, 
whose loss could not be repaired throughout all Europe. Every 
human honor was paid to his remains, and the sorrow of his 
countrymen was without bounds. A general mourning was or- 
dered at Upsala. To quote the words of their sovereign, they 
had " lost, alas ! a man, whose celebrity was as great all over the world, 
as the honor was bright ivhich his country derived from him as a citi- 
zen. Long will Upsala remember the celebrity which it acquired by 
the name of Linnceus !" 
In foreign lands equal regard was paid to his memory. He 
was eulogised in the Royal Academy by Condorcet and Vicq d' 
Azyr, and his bust was erected under the highest cedar in the 
Royal Gardens. Dr. Hope, the Professor of Botany in the Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh, had a monument to his name erected in the 
botanic garden. Many societies have been formed under the 
auspices of his name, of which the most important was instituted 
in 1788, by the exertion of the late Sir James (then Dr.) Edward 
Smith. This possesses the whole library, herbaria, and manu- 
scripts of the illustrious person whom it records. They were 
purchased by the members, at the demise of their respected 
founder and president, and they rightly judged that the Linnsean 
Society o ? London was the only place where these monuments of 
his labors and abilities could be with propriety deposited. 
