"I have lived out my time, and done what I could. May God preserve thee, from whom the world expects much more! Farewell! my dear Linnaeus!"
— Carl Linnaeus

January 1, 1970

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Words that his friend Herman Boerhaave said to Linnaeus when the botanist went to visit him at his deathbed. As quoted in A life of Linnaeus, p. 94.