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lodged. LINN.EUS, who only heard, from a fellow-country- 
man, of the sudden and deplorable event, which had 
deprived him of his best friend, two days after its oc- 
currence, hurried to Amsterdam as early as possible, 
but found all provision made at the charge of SEBA, who, 
as LINN^US says, 'very liberally' allotted a sum of 50 
florins towards the burial expenses. It is a little diffi- 
cult for us to understand wherein the liberality con- 
sisted, for during the whole time he had been working 
for SEBA, ARTEDI had been living at his own expense. 
LINNAEUS would seem to be using the expression in an 
ironical sense; he himself certainly met with a far more 
really liberal and generous treatment at the hands of 
those Dutchmen and others in whose service he was 
engaged. Nor does SEBA, as we shall see, come out well 
in the light of subsequent events. 
The profound grief which LINNAEUS felt at the pre- 
mature decease of his friend finds fitting utterance in 
the following striking passage in his writings: "When 
I beheld his lifeless body stiff and stark, and saw his 
livid lips filmed with the frost of death; when I reflected 
upon the unhappy fate of this my best and dearest friend 
these many years past; when I recalled to mind the in- 
numerable sleepless nights, the countless hours of strenu- 
ous labour, the wearisome and perilous journeys, and the 
heavy expense in various ways, which the man now lying 
dead before me had been fain to undergo and submit 
to ere he could attain to that standard of learning which 
webrugsteg, and that he was buried as a pauper in St. Anthony's 
Churchyard. That burial-ground was some years ago appropriated 
to other purposes, part of it being allotted as building-land to a 
Primary School and part added to the University Botanical Gardens. 
There will never probably have been any monument raised to mark 
where the penniless foreign student was laid to rest, and doubtless 
the spot and the event were soon forgotten. An opportunity has 
now, however, been afforded the admirers of ARTEDI'S career and 
work to record for coming generations that gratitude is felt for 
what he achieved, inasmuch as leave has recently been obtained to 
have a simple stone raised in the Gardens of the Royal Zoological 
Society "Natura Artis Magistra", in the city where he met his death. 
