THE DEATH OF THE YOUNGER LINNAEUS. 307 
obje& of still greater and brighter hopes to his fellow citizens 3 though 
they never came to maturity. 
Attended by a great number of mourners, his corpse was solemnly 
deposited on the 30th of November 17835 in the cathedral at Upsal , 
close. to his father’s remains. M. Von Schuuenheim honoured his 
memory by publicly delivering a funeral oration. 1 he male branch of 
the ennobled family of Linn^us having become extind by this death, 
his coat of arms, according to the Swedish custom, was broke in pieces, 
and the gardener of the University strewed flowers over a tomb 
which contains the ashes of a generation, that will remain great and 
imperishable as long as the earth, and nature and her science shu 1 
exist. 
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