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did not obtain the approbation of that learned body. Many other 
essays were afterwards delivered, but would not answer. At last, the 
academy received an elegant inscription, which was sent with the motto : 
« At Pia Thura ferarn.” — It was the produ&ion of Mr. Gunnar Bach- 
man n, a Swedish literatus, to whom the prize medal was adjudged ac- 
cording , by the academy at their meeting, held March 20th, 1792 ; 
and this inscription has been engraved upon the monument t. 
The late Kinc, whose merits were so great, and who had esteemed 
Linn a: us while he still was Prince Royal, and rewarded him as 
King, conferred farther honours upon his memory. When the Swedish 
diet was convened for the second time during his reign in the year 
1778, he ordered his chancellor, at the opening of the Pleni Plenorum , 
or the four states of the kingdom, to read a sketch of his government 
and enterprises, during the six preceding years. In this sketch his 
Majesty mentioned the'death of Linn a; us in the following honourable 
and flattering manner : 
« The University of Upsal has also attrafted my attention. Always 
« will I remember with pleasure, that the chancellorship of that Univer- 
« sity was entrusted to me, before I ascended the throne ; I have also 
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«f quitatum Stockholmicnsi, duplici pracmio et cxteros et Indigenas ad ceriamen vocavit, tain 
« a d consignandum Eulogium Linn je i, quam adi nscriptionem monument!, in ejtis honorem 
< c erigendi, quorum tameu ncutrum hoc usque tale Academiae exhibitumest, lit pracmio ornari 
<1 potuerit, Erigetur vero momimentum lapideum vel bustum Linn.li in frontispicio novarum 
« a-dium Hot ti et professionis Botanic* nostras Academic, qua: regiis impensis magnifice nunc 
“ exstruuntur.” • ,y 
f Since the death of the late King, the admirers of Linnaeus in Sweden have raised a 
public subscription throughout the kingdom, to ereft him a monument of Swedish norphyzy 
to Linnjeus in the cathedral at Upsal. The Chevalier Ssrgell has been charged with 
its. execution, and considerable sums had already been subscribed in the beginning of 
