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The same plate was eiiiployed for the edition of the ' Philoaophia 

 Botauiea ' published at Stockholm in 1751, the date of the 

 engraving being changed from 1748 to 1749, though it is also 

 inscribed " Delin. 1748." Linnaeus appends to his diary an ac- 

 count of his person. Tlie manuscript copy of the diary which 

 came into the possession of Dr. Maton, and which he printed in 

 his edition of Pulteney's ' View of tlie Writings of Linnaeus,' 

 does not go beyond the year 1769. In this Linnaeus says : 

 " The portrait prefixed to the ' Pailosophia Botanica ' of 1751 is 

 the best." Afzehus published the diary from the autograph of 

 Linnaeus (1823). The entries in the diary come down to 1776. 

 The note I have quoted as to his appearance is modified to read : 

 " The portrait prefixed to the ' Philosophia Botanica ' for 1751 

 is among the best. But that which the Academy of Sciences 

 had painted in 1774 [1775] can be little improved." 



Bernigeroth's engraving was reproduced by Volkart for the 

 German translation of the ' Systema Naturae,' published at 

 Nuremberg in 1777 ; by B. Grhtssbach for the edition of the 

 'Philosophia Botanica ' published at Berlin in 1780, and, 

 without an engraver's name, for Willdenow's edition of the same 

 work published at Berlin in 1790. On this last it is stated that 

 it represents Linnaeus at the age of forty. 



A further modification of Ehrensverd appears in the frontis- 

 piece to the second edition of the ' Species Plantarum,' published 

 at Stockholm in 1762. The portrait has been copied directly on 

 the plate, so that it comes out reversed in the print. One i*esult 

 is that the two warts on his face appear on the proper side. 

 The body is slightly to the left, but the face is nearly full, 

 only a very little to the right. The sprig of Linncea, the volume 

 of the ' Systema,' and tlie general treatment is the same as in 

 the earlier engraving ; but the left arm is brouglit to the left 

 side of the body so as to expose the decoration of the Polar 

 Star now attached to his coat, and the breast is covered by a 

 frilled and fastened up shirt. The two lines by Aurivillius are 

 engraved after the name and titles of Linnaeus. The engraver's 

 name is not given ; a manuscript note by Eichhorn, on a copy 

 which I obtained at the sale of his collections in Stockholm, 

 ascribes it to Bergquist and gives the date 1761. An unsigned 

 and reversed reproduction of this portrait was issued in the 

 edition of the 'Philosophia Botanica' published at Vienna in 

 1770. Eabricius says of this portrait, " his countenance was 

 open, almost constantly serene, and bore great resemblance to 

 his portrait in the ' Species Plantarum.' " 



A very iudifterent reproduction of this engraving, but reversed, 

 was issued in England without an engraver's name, and insci'ibed 

 "Sir Charles Linnaeus." 



A bright and beautiful engraving by P. Tanje, published by 

 Wishoff, of Leyden, follows in its chief characteristics this work 

 of Ehrensverd, though the engraver has obviously studied the 



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