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HONOURS PAID TO THE 
The memory of Linn*us was equally reverenced at home and 
abroad. John Hope, professor of Botany at Edinburgh , who died in 
1786, opened his autumnal leftures in 1778, with a panegyric on Lin- 
NjEUS, and had a monument eretted to him with this inscription: 
“ LINNJLO POSUIT J. HOPE." 
Professor Alston, his predecessor, had been one of the most rigo- 
rous anti-sexualists and opponents of Linneus. A fine contrast ap- 
peared, however, under Hope, and the same thing happened at Helmstadt, 
where BeiRis, the successor of the implacable Heister, preached to 
his pupils the greatness of Linnaeus, and instilled into their minds 
love and veneration towards him. 
At the meeting of the royal academy of sciences at Paris, Condor- 
cet read a panegyric upon Linnaus; and M. Vicq d’Azyr made 
also his eulogium at the meeting of the Parisian medical society (Societe 
de Medicine), which was founded in 1776. The Chevalier Thunberc 
had already, in 1779, sent to the royal academy of sciences at Paris 
some of the most interesting particulars of the life of Linn/Eus taken 
from his own diary. The purport of the contents of the panegyric 
delivered by M. Viq d’Azyr, has already been circumstantially 
stated in the beginning of this seftion. The Duke de Noallles 
11 Descartes (Queen Christina of Sweden, called the latter to Stockholm, where he 
“died in 1650; but his remains were afterwards removed to Paris), who as neglected in 
» h| s country after his death, as he had been disregarded there during his life, still expefts 
11 0 f his fellow citizens those honours which foreign nations were eager to lavish upon him. 
« see Eloge de M. de Linne, da I’Histoire de l' Acad. Roy. des Sciences, Paris 
The author of this biography knows nothing of this monument, and the plan of raising one 
in the cathedral of Upjal is of a quite recent date.. 
caused: 
