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wasted with his body, and his earthly frame became 
to him a burden. In this distressing state he con- 
tinued for nearly twelve months, at times suffering 
great agony from his previous disease; and as the 
powers of his constitution became exhausted, he be- 
came insensible to pain, and expired in a gentle slumber 
on the afternoon of the 10th January 1778, aged 
seventy years and seven months. 
Thus terminated the active and ever-searching life 
of this pious and illustrious man, depriving natural 
history of her brightest ornament, and his country of 
a fellow-citizen and professor, whose loss could not 
be repaired throughout all Europe. Every human 
honour was paid to his remains, and the sorrow of his 
countrymen was without bounds. A general mourn- 
ing was ordered at Upsala. To use the words of their 
sovereign, they had “ lost, alas! a man, whose celebrity 
was as great all over the world, as the honour was bright 
which his country derived from him as a citizen. Long 
will Upsala remember the celebrity which it acquired 
by the name of Linnaeus ! ” 
In foreign lands equal regard was paid to his memory. 
He was eulogized in the Royal Academy by Condorcet 
and Yicq d’Azyr, and his bust was erected under the 
highest cedar in the Royal Gardens. Dr Hope, the 
Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, 
had a monument to his name erected in the Botanic 
Garden. Many societies have been formed under the 
auspices of his name, of which the most important was 
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