MEMORY OF LINNAEUS. 
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GUSTAVUS III. 
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UT BONIS ARTIBUS ET PRASERTIM SCIENTIyE IN GENTIS LAUDEM, A CAROLO 
LINNiEO AD FASTI GIUM EVECTjE SIMULQUE MEMORISE CONSECRARET AU- 
SPICIA, QU1BUS FILIUS 
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS 
ACADEMIAM UPSALIENSEM TUETUR, HAS AIDES EXSTRUERE VOLUIT, PRIMIS 
SUA MANU LOCATIS FUNDAMENTIS DIE XVII. AUG. M.D.CC.LXXXVII. 
— “To promote the studies, and especially the science which Lin- 
« n.eus, to the honour of his nation, has brought to the highest pitch 
« of perfe&ion, and to preserve the remembrance of the Chancellor- 
“ ship of the University of Up sal, the functions of which were exer- 
“ cised by the Prince Royal Gustavus Adolphus, these buildings 
« have been raised, and the foundation-stone thereto laid, August 17th, 
« 1787, with his own hands, by Gustavus III.” 
The honourable manner, in which the name of Linnaus was 
mentioned in the letter of donation of the new botanical garden, has 
been already stated in the seventh seftion. 
The great and elevated Queen Ulrica Louisa, mother to the late 
King of Sweden, who died in 1782, venerated Linn a us as devoutly 
as her son. When Linn a, us was alive, she had his portrait cast in the 
form of a medallion by the celebrated Archeveque, exhibited in the 
apartments of the palace at Drottningholm , in front of the portraits of 
Klingenstierna, de Geer, and other illustrious Swedes*. 
The 
* “ After the death of Linnaus,” say Condorcet, “ the King of Sweden caused a 
" monument to be'erected to him, by the side of that which the same prince had consecrated to 
K k “ Descartes 
