MEMOIR OP L1NNJEUS. 
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The Academy of Stockholm caused liis portrait to 
be engraved at Paris ; a monument was erected to 
him at Edinburgh; and another by the Duke of 
Noailles in his garden ; the latter was a cenotaph 
with a bust, and a medallion bearing an appropriate 
inscription. Idis name was assumed by Botanical 
Societies in different parts of Europe ; and the 
learned of all nations seemed to vie with each other 
in the sincerity of their regret for his loss. The 
Academy of Belles Lettres and History at Stock- 
holm, instituted a prize for the best eulogium upon 
him, to be composed in Latin, French, or Italian. 
The King of Sweden caused a medal to be struck, 
on one side of which was the head of Linnaeus, and 
on the obverse a mourning Cybele, surrounded by 
animals and plants, with the motto — “ Deam Indus 
angit amissi." The terms in which his Majesty 
expressed himself before the Diet of the States, 
show how deeply he felt the loss which Science had 
sustained by the death of its greatest ornament. 
“ I shall never forget (says he) those marks of 
attachment which I received in the University of 
Upsala before I mounted the throne. There I 
founded a new chair ; but, alas ! I have lost a man 
whose renown filled the universe, and whom Sweden 
will ever be proud to number among her children. 
Long will this ancient city remember how much 
of her celebrity she owes to him who bears the 
name of Linnaeus.” 
After so many tokens of regard lavished upon 
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