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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES 
These were the last fruits of the aStivity of a man whose whole life 
had been uninterrupted enthusiasm and merit. Meanwhile his fame 
spread all over the world, nay farther, perhaps, than that of any learned 
man of our age ever reached. He was every where freely acknow- 
ledged and revered as the first man in the science which he cultivated. 
The different academies of Europe vied with each other, which of them 
should first have the honour of elefting Linn as us one of their mem- 
bers. He experienced also the flattering distin£lion which had never 
before been the lot of any Northern genius, to be received in 1762, as 
an ordinary member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, after 
he had been its corresponding member ever since the year 1738. This, 
for a foreigner, was deemed a very particular mark of respeH by Barons 
Leibnitz, Haller, Van Swieten, and the great anatomist Mor- 
gagni at Padua*. The Royal Society of London followed this ex- 
ample in the year 1763. In 1762 Linnaeus also became a member of 
the British CEconomical Society, and in 1772 Honorary Member of 
the Physical College at Edinburgh. The Academy of Florence chose 
him in 1759, that of Drontheim in 1766, that of Cell in 17 67, that of 
Rotterdam in 1771, that of Sienna in the same year, and that of Bern 
in 1772. He was elefted Fellow of the Royal Patriotic Society in 
Sweden in 1775, and shortly before his death also became a member 
of the Medical Society of Paris (Societe de Medecine) which was first 
first instituted in the year 177 6. The greatest academy in a distant 
part of the world, that of Philadelphia , also brightened her records by 
* The person who replaced Linn^us in the Royal Academy of Sciences of Paris, was 
Sir John Pringle, Bart. The only eminent men in Sweden, who could boast of such 
an honour after the death of LiNNiEus, were professor Bergmann and the Chevalier 
Wargentin. 
