A moderate degree of opulence (consi derable indeed relatively to the country in which he lived) attended the honour and reputation which Linmeus enjoyed. He was enabled to purchase an estate and villa at Hammerby, near Upsal, which was his chief summer residence during the last fifteen years of his life. Here he bad a museum of natural history, on which he gave lectures; and here he oc casionally entertained his friends, but with that aeronomy which had become a habit with him, and which the possession of wealth, as is frequently the case, rather straightened than relaxed. His vigour and activity continued to an advanced period, though his memory overburthened with such an immense load of names, be gan to fail after his sixtieth year. An at tack of apoplexy, in May 1774, obliged him to relinquish the most laborious parts of his professional duties, and to close his literary toils. In 1776 a second seizure rendered him paralytic on the right side, and reduced him to a deplorable state of mental and bodily debility. An ulcera tion of the bladder was the concluding symptom which carried him oft; on Jan uary 10, 1778, in the seventy-first year of his age. A general mourning took place at Upsal, at his death, and his body was attended to the grave with every token of respect. His memory received dis tinguished honours, not only in his own country, but from the friends of science in various foreign nations.
Linnmus was below the middle stature, but strong and muscular. His features were agreeable, and his were un commonly animated. His temper was lively, ardent, irritable ; his indignation warm, and his industry indefatigable. He
had a large share of natural eloquence, and a good command of language, though his perpetual study of things did not per mit him to pay much attention to the or naments of words. In society he was easy and pleasant ; in his domestic rela tions kind and affectionate ; and in the or dinary commmerce of life upright and honourable. His views of nature im pressed him with the most devout senti ments towards its author, and a glow of unaffected piety is continually breaking forth throughout his writings. If it be generally true, that men of real merit are modest estimators of themselves, he was an exception to the rule ; for vanity was his greatest foible, and no panegyrist could surpass what he has written to his own praise in his diary. He was, how ever, totally free from envy, and bestowed applause liberally where it was deserved ; nor did his love of fame cause him to descend to personal controversies with antagonists. He left a son and four daughters. The former was joint pro fessor of botany with his father, and suc ceeded to his medical chair : he was well acquainted with botanical science, but had none of his father's genius. The eldest daughter, Elizabeth-Christiana, had a turn for observation, and became known by her discovery of the luminous quality of the flower tropeeolum, communicated to the academy at Stockholm.
Of the numerous works of Linnaeus, and their different editions, particular cata logues are given in the works from which this article is composed. Stover's Life of Linnnxus. Pulteney's General View of the Writings of Linnxus, second edition, by Dr. Maton, with the Diary of Linnxtts, by himself.