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Our late member, Dr. J. J. Levick, was going to Europe soon 

 after this. I gave him a photograph and asked him to keep a 

 lookout for it in the picture galleries. When lie Avas in Amster- 

 dam one day, in a street-car, he met an American friend, who 

 asked him where he was going. He replied, " To the Academy of 

 Fine Arts, to find a portrait of Linnjeus for a friend." A lady, 

 sitting beside him, who understood English, turned to him and 

 very kindlv said: " You will not find that picture at the Academy 

 of Fine Arts, It is in the library of the Zoological Garden at 

 the other end of the city." The name of the Zocllogical Society 

 of Amsterdam is Natura Artis Magistra ; the garden is popularly 

 called Artis. He went there and found it. It is the original of 

 the engraving. I Avrote to the Society, and asked if they would 

 allow the picture to be copied, and would name an artist of repute, 

 who would be the best to do it. To this I got no answer. 



I have a nephew. Dr. Charles E. Smith, of St. Paul, Minn. 

 One of his patients is the Hon, Stanford Newel, our minister to 

 La Hague, Holland. I wrote to Mr. Newel, introducing myself 

 as the uncle of my nephew, asking his aid. He replied promptly 

 and Avarmly, In selecting an artist he examined the work of 

 about twenty of them. He asked the advice of Mr. Beaufort, 

 the Minister of State of Holland. They fixed on Mr. Boude- 

 wijnse. They also ascertained that the Artis picture is itself 

 a copy. The original belongs to Baron Verschuer, and is in his 

 country home near Haarlem, twenty -three miles from La Hague. 

 He was asked if he would allow a copy of it to be made. He 

 assented, but required that it be done at his house — that the pic- 

 ture could not be taken away. The artist objected to this, as the 

 light was not good. He said he could not do justice to the picture 

 or to himself unless he had it in a proper light. The baron then 

 yielded tiie point, and we have the picture. 



If it affords you half as much satisfaction to receive it as it does 

 me to give it, I shall be amply repaid. 



There are two remarkable blunders in the picture. The second 

 scientific trip of Linureus' life was to Lapland. On it he discov- 

 ered Liu)uea borealis, described and named after him by Grono- 

 vius, the common name of which is twin ffoAver, because each stem 

 bears two flowers. Liunauis loved this plant very much. When 

 he was ennobled by the king of Sweden, he chose Linncea for his 

 crest. 



Stockholm stands on a number of I'ocky islands, some of them 

 quite small. One of them is called Ritterholm, the Knights' 

 Island. When I was there in 1850, there was but one building 

 on it, called the Ritterholm Kirk — the Swedish Walhalla. It con- 

 tains statues of all the great men of Sweden, among them Liu- 

 nseus. It is of white marble. He stands with an open book in 

 his hand, on its page is an outline of Linncea. 



