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SECTION X. 
REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES ATTENDING THE LIFE OF 
LINNJZUS, FROM THE YEAR 1760 TO HIS DEATH , 
JANUARY THE TENTH, 1778. 
MERITS OF LINNAEUS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCE.— HIS VARIOUS MEDICAL WRIT- 
INGS, — ANECDOTES. — UNFAIR CRITICISM OF M. VICQ D'AZYR — REFUTATION. 
OF THAT CRITICISM.— APOLOGY OF ASSESSOR HEDIN.— MERITORIOUS EFFORTS 
OF LINNvEUS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL REIGN.— HIS CLAS- 
SIFICATION OF THE MINERAL REIGN.— HIS LAST LEARNED LABOURS.— LIN- 
NjEUS WAS A MEMBER OF TWENTY ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES.— HIS WORKS 
SERVE AS THE ELEMENTARY BASIS OF NATURAL HISTORY, ESPECIALLY IN 
SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. — EXTRAORDINARY PRESENT MADE HIM BY LORD 
BALTIMORE.— OTHER PRESENTS.— HIS GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES.— HIS PENSION. — 
HONORARY BESTOWED ON HIM FOR HIS WORKS.— HIS RURAL ESTATES.— 
RESPECTFUL HOMAGE RENDERED TO HIM BY SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS AND 
MONARCHS.— VENERATION MANIFESTED BY THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER, J. J. 
ROUSSEAU FOR LINNvEUS. — LINN.if.US IS ELECTED A MEMBER OF THE SWEDISH 
BIBLE.— COMMISSION.— HIS EXTENSIVE CORRESPONDENCE,— PARTICULARS OF 
THE LATTER END OF THE LIFE OF LINNAEUS.— HIS LAST PUBLIC ORATION. 
HIS ENTHUSIASTIC STUDY OF NATURE EVEN IN HIS OLD AGE.— BENEFICIAL 
AND DETRIMENTAL INFLUENCE OF THAT STUDY UPON HIS HEALTH.— HIS. 
LETTER TO MR. PENNANT.— HE SUFFERS AN APOPLECTIC STROKE.— ANECDOTE. 
DECAY OF HIS MENTAL FACULTIES —HIS MISERABLE CONDITION.— OTTER 
ANECDOTES.— DEATH OF LINNAEUS — HONOUR ALE TRIBUTE PAID TO HIS ME- 
MORY.— GUSTAVUS III. LATE KING OF SWEDEN, PUBLICLY LAMENTS H13 LOSS, 
AND ORDERS A MEDAL TO BE STRUCK IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIM.— GUSTAVUS 
III. IMMORTALIZES THE HONOUR OF LINNAEUS’S NAME IN THE HISTORY OF 
THE UNIVERSITY AT UPSAL.— MONUMENT ERECTED TO LINNAEUS.— PRIZES 
OFFERED FOR A PANEGYRIC UPON LINNAEUS. — QUEEN ULRICA LOUISA OF 
SWEDEN. - ANECDOTES. - HONOURS PAID TO THE MEMORY OF UNN.RUS 
IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.— LINNACAN SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND LEIPSIC.— 
PORTRAITS OF LINNAEUS.— LEARNED INHERITANCE LEFT BEHIND HIM— COMES- 
IN THE POSSESSION OF JAMES EDWARD SMITH, M. D. OF LONDON.— CIRCUM- 
STANCES ATTENDING THE SALE OF THOSE TREASURES OF SCIENCE.— ANEC- 
DOTES.— 
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