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238 The Floral King.
modelled by Bystrém, was erected October 22nd,
1822, in the Botanical Garden at Upsala, where
Linnzus used to lecture.
A small obelisk was on June rath, 1866, erected in
front of the cottage at Rashult, to commemorate
Linnzus’s birth at that place, May 13th,1707. This
obelisk replaced one of a more primitive nature,
which was deemed unseemly, and had been erected
by some local admirer. The present one is seen as
the passenger hurries past on the railway, skirting
the child-Linnzus’s garden plot.
A magnificent bronze statue of Linnzus, modelled
by professor Frithiof Kjellberg, was unveiled May
13th, 1885, at Stockholm, the event being held a
national féte. It stands at the back of the Royal
National Library, and central in the park which
has been renamed.the Linnzan Park. The statue
itself is surrounded by four allegorical female figures,
those of Botany, Zoology, Mineralogy, and Medicine.
An engraving thereof adorns this volume.
London has also honoured Linnzeus, by placing a
life-sized statue in a niche at the back of Burlington
House, the left frontage of which contain “The
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