l8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



3. Lithograph of the head of Dr. P. L. Sclater, P.R.S., Secre- 

 tary of the Zooh^gical Society. 



The Council likewise have purchased at a very moderate sum 

 the portrait in oil of Jacob Bobart, Botanist, the first curator of 

 the famous phyt^ic garden at Oxford. He was born in 1598, and 

 died in 1679, afterwards being succeeded by his son as Curator 

 and Professor of Botany at Oxford. 



Lastly, I have to mention a well-known portrait of Linnaeus, 

 taken from life by the Swedish artist Magnus Hallman. On 

 Linnanib's death this portrait does not seem to have been among 

 the eftVcts transmitted to Sir J. E. Smith ; and since then it seems 

 to have been lost sight of. The authenticity of this painting is 

 vouched for in documents accompanying it as under : — 



" I do hereby certify that the portrait of the deceased Archiater 

 Carl von Liune painted in oil on parchment, of the size within 

 the frauie of about 8X6 French inches, and bearing on its back 

 the following inscription : — 



" Carolus a Linnc ; Equ. Ord. Reg. Stella; Polaris, Regis Suecise Ar- 

 chiater, Medicina; ct Botanices Professor in I'liiversitate Regia Upsa- 

 liensi ; Acad. Reg. Scient. Stockholm, Upsala, Paris, Loudon, Petrop., 

 Berol., Florent., Montpell., Toulous, Bern, Yien, Edinb., Triendh., 

 Celle, Philadelph., Zeelantl, Soeius. Katus die 13 Maij 1707. De- 

 natus die 10 January 1778. — Deam luetus augit amissi Cybelen. 

 Magn. Hallman piuxit." 



has during several years been in the possession of my late father, 

 the well known antiquarian and author, Arvid August Afzelius, 

 who considered it old, as it was already then such a rarity that he 

 did not permit it being touched up or cleaned ; not ouly did he 

 not let it hang in his room uncovered, but he even had a wooden 

 case made for it. My father used to say that this portiait had 

 come into his possession iroin the physician Dr. P. A. Martin, 

 who was a great-grandson of the Archiater v. Liune, and got this 

 heirloom from his mother's aunt Miss Louise v. Linne, unmarried 

 daughter of Carl v. Liune, who died in Upsala in the year 1839. 

 " Stockholm, in December 1879, 

 (signed) 0. O. Apzelius, 



Eoyal Swedish Life Gruard." 



" 1 do hereby certify that the above described portrait, whieli is 

 considered in the family as the best likeness, is the same which 

 formerly was in the possession of my lale husband Dr. P. A. 

 Martin, the son of the granddaugliter of Archiater v. Linne, and 

 before then belonged to Miss v. Lmne at Upsala, who was an 

 unmanied aunt of his mother, and who kept it hanging over her 

 bed until her death. 



"Stockholm, March 15, 1880, 



(signed) Am alia Alb MAiniK, 



Widow of Dr. P. A. Martin." 



