SO Dr Sprengel’s Memoir of the Life 
collections of natural objects. After amassing all the knowledge 
which his excellent opportunities and indefatigable industry 
could procure for him, he returned home in 1789 ; and, being 
immediately honoured with a fellowship in the University of 
Holm, he renewed his former journeys, and explored, in that and 
the following year, the northern provinces, the Norwegian Alps, 
and even part of Lapland. In 1790 he obtained the Presiden- 
cy of the Academy ; and in 1 791 the office of Professor in the 
Bergian Institution. Nearly at the same time he married the 
daughter of Dr Bergh of Upsal, an amiable and accomplished 
lady, who died in 1800, leaving him a son and a daughter. 
Our author, in the mean time, found consolation in the study 
of his beloved plants. He refused the honourable situation in the 
Academy of Petersburg which had become vacant by the death 
of Lepichinius, being determined to devote his life to the glory 
and benefit of his own country. Nor was his country ungrate- 
ful ; for he was advanced to the orders of Vasa and of the Polar 
Star ; and in 1813 was nominated to a Professorship in the Ca- 
rolinian Institute. From 1811 he also acted as Secretary to the 
Academy. Decorated with these honours, and occupied with 
these labours, he was, in the month of September 1817, seized 
with a nervous fever, of which he died. 
He departed from life, esteemed by all who are devoted to 
science, loved by every one who loves virtue, courted by the 
most honourable, whether native or foreigner. “ Whatever of 
Swartz we have loved, whatever we have admired, remains, and 
will remain in the minds of men for ages to come, recorded in 
the annals of science and virtue” 
His merits are so numerous and so great, especially in Botany, 
that it would be impossible to enumerate them in a few words, 
so as to do justice to his memory : For the first and chief ac- 
complishment of a botanist, a very extensive knowledge of the 
various forms in the vegetable kingdom, was so eminently pos- 
sessed by him, that we know of none who was his superior in 
this respect. 
He admirably illustrated the family of Orchidese, which had 
been left almost untouched to his time, founded new genera, 
raised upon a fixed and solid basis, and added many new species. 
(On the genus Epidendron, Schrad. Journ . 1799, ii. p.202.^ 
