MEMORY OF LINNAEUS. 
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{£ instituted there a new professorship. — B ut i have lost, alas! 
<c A MAN, WHOSE CELEBRITY WAS AS GREAT ALL OVER THE WORLD 
11 AS THE HONOUR WAS BRIGHT WHICH HIS COUNTRY DERIVED 
SC FROM HIM AS A CITIZEN. LONC WILL UpSAL REMEMBER THE 
K CELEBRITY WHICH IT ACQUIRED BY THE NAME OF A LlNN>EUS !” 
On the 5th of December in the same year, the King v himself 
present at the meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences, when Dean 
BjECk, one of the oldest friends of Linn.eus, delivered the comme- 
moration speech, which we had already occasion thus frequently to 
mention in this work. The King also rendered farther homage to the 
merits of Linnaeus by a gold medal which he ordered to be struck. 
It was executed by the masterly hand of Lynnc berger, one of the 
first artists Sweden ever produced. On one side the medal represented 
the portrait of Linnaeus, with the Linncea Borealisj encompassed with 
this inscription : 
« Carolus Linnaeus, Arch. Reg. Eques Auratus.” On the 
other side appears the figure of Cybele, or nature in a sad and mourn- 
ful posture, holding a key in her left hand, and surrounded with ani- 
mals, plants, and other emblems of natural history. Among the ani- 
mals a bear is to be distinguished, on whose back jumps an ape;— 
this is probably an allusion to the following latin words, already men- 
tioned at the conclusion of Se£t. VI. of this biography: — 44 ringentiuw 
“ Satyrorum cacflinnos t meisque humeris insilientium Cercophithecorum 
« exu Itationes sustinui — It was in these words, our readers will re- 
member, Linnaeus had described his conduct towards his opponents 
in the last edition of his System of Nature. The forbear- 
ance and greatness which characterized his conduct is extremely 
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