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The Floral King. 237
Societé Linnéenne was instituted the same year
in Paris as in London; in Philadelphia, 1806; in
Boston, 1813; in Bordeaux, 1818; also in Lyons,
and in New South Wales, Australia, exist similar
Societies.
Linnzus’s writings were for many years prohibited
in the pontifical states, but in 1773, Cardinal de
Zelanda, caused professor J. F. Maratti, to be
succeeded by Ant. Minasi, purposely to lecture about
Linnzus’s ‘* Systema Sexuale.”
The portrait of Linnzeus in the dress of a Lap-
lander, was painted in 1737, in Holland, by Mart.
Hoffman, of which an engraving forms the frontis-
piece of this volume. On Linnzus’s tomb of black
porphyry in the cathedral of Upsala, is a medallion
portrait by the eminent Swedish sculptor Sergel,
contemporaneous with Linnzeus, and is deemed an
admirable likeness. The remains of Linnzus were
interred, January 22nd, 1778.
A bust of Linnzus in biscuit, by John Forslund,
was in 1807 placed in the academy of Wexid, the
school which Linnzus frequented as a boy.
A marble statue, in sitting posture of Linnzus,
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