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1208 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
desired to sell it to the sect in England; but on account of illness
he was not able to execute the design. He delivered the skull to
the pastor of the society. Meanwhile the matter got into the news
papers, and Dr. Wåhlin received an offer of £ 500 for it, which he
indignantly declined. Soon after, on the occasion of another burial,
when the vault was opened, the skull was re-deposited. At that
time a cast of the skull was taken in the presence of the pastor,
a member of the Nordensköld family, and the trustees. Only three
casts were taken, with a moral obligation that their number should
not be multiplied. One of these casts is in the possession of Mr.
Wåhlin in Stockholm; another is in Frugård in Finland, in the pos
session of one of the branches of the Nordensköld family ; and the third
cast is in the possession, we believe, of another branch of the Norden
sköld family in Sweden.
NOTE 235.
BISHOP FORSENIUS.
Bishop Forsenius, who requested the Rev. A. Ferelius on his
return from London in 1772, to give an account of his intercourse
with Swedenborg (see Document 267, p. 560) , was Bishop of Skara
at that time. He is reputed to have been a pious and learned bi
shop. He was born in 1706, and died in 1788 at Brunsbo, which
was formerly inhabited by Bishop Swedberg.
NOTE 236.
THE BROTHERS KNÖS.
CARL JOHAN KNös, whose account of a visit to Ferelius con
stitutes Document 267, B (pp . 562-564), was the son of Anders
Olofsohn Knös, Dean of Skara, the defender of Swedenborg’s doc
trines (see Dr. Kahl’s Nya Kyrkan, part III, pp. 39-57).
was born at Skara in 1767, and on his way to Upsal in 1784 he
stopped with Ferelius in Sköfde, obtaining from him his account of
Swedenborg. After finishing his course at the university, he returned
to Skara as one of the teachers in the gymnasium, and, after passing
through all the grades of a teacher in the gymnasium, he was
appointed Dean of Skara in 1825. He was reputed one of the foremost
preachers of the day, although he did not publish much. He died
in 1835.
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