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Wallenstrale, carried the Order [of the Polar Star]. 
In the absence of other relatives besides the son, his 
countryman, Professor Floderus, Adjunct Hageman 
and I were the mourners, Professors Melander and 
Sidren being staff-bearers. About twenty people of 
the procession remained to supper, and the day 
following, the whole Smaland Nation was invited to 
dinner.” The coffin was put down in the walled-in 
grave, at the north side under the organ loft, between 
the first and second pillars behind the women’s 
benches, which grave Linne had so far back as 1745 
bought of Councillor Nils Kyronius for 100 copper 
dalers \_£2 10s.]; the grave was at once closed down. 
After the son’s death in 1783, the widow had an inscrip¬ 
tion made, stating that Carl von Linne, father and son 
and herself here had their resting place. Linne had 
ordered that close to his grave, a bronze medallion 
from his museum should be placed, with “ Princeps 
Botanicorum,” and dates of birth and death. It 
seems to have been taken away at the time when the 
memorial of Alfdal porphyry, with a bronze medallion 
by Sergei, was erected in 1798, by “ amici et 
discipuli ” in the Ban6r Chapel adjoining. 
In connection with the funeral, was the sending out 
of notifications, of which Linne had himself prepared 
two, the longer being chosen by the widow. 
Linne’s death was not unexpected, but when it 
took place, there was much grief in wide circles for the 
great loss which science and his country had sustained, 
found expression in many ways. The Academy of 
Science hastened to decide that a Memorial Oration 
should be given, and Archiater Back was invited to 
undertake it. This he did on the 5th December in the 
round saloon in the old castle, before the King and 
a numerous auditory. The Uppsala students decided 
to have a bronze medal struck, but postponed it until 
Sergei should return to Sweden; perhaps it resulted 
in the plaque now on his memorial. 
The King of Sweden, Gustaf III., made himself 
