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Museum at Eruii.swick, which reminds him very much ol" 

 Schollcl's Hammurhy portrait. 



At the request of the King, Inlander executed a small wax 

 profile portrait of Liutitcus in 1773. This portrait is still pre- 

 served at Ilaiumarby. On the back of it is a note written by 

 Liiiurpus to the effect that it was done ou August 17th, 1773, 

 by Carl Fridr. Inlander. On the following day, Linnaeus wrote 

 a letter printed by Ahrling (Svenska Arbeiten, No. 229), which 

 Mr. Gepp has been good enough to translate for me. In it 

 he says, " A new and great proof of my good Sire's favour 

 towards me I have lately had by the band of Mr. Inlander, who 

 has modelled me in wax so skilfully that all say that they have 

 never seen anything more skilfully done or more like me." 

 This portrait was reproduced by Liungberger in the medal struck 

 by the command of the King after the death of Linnjeus. Two 

 copies of this medal are in the possession of this Society, one in 

 silver and the other in bronze. The medal is engraved in 

 Afzelius's ' Egenh. Anteck.' (tab. iii. fig. 6), and more accu- 

 rately l)y Basire for Maton's Pulteuey (p. 112, fig. 2). 



Tlie Society possesses two reproductions of Inlander's medal- 

 lion, — the one in white alabaster, presented by the Medical 

 Society of Stockholm, and the other in a plastic material, pre- 

 sented by Sir Joseph Banks ; tbis latter is the original, I believe, 

 of the beautiful cameo by AVedgewood, of which I regret to say 

 the Society has no example. Solander, a favourite pupil of 

 Linnoous, is said to have considered AV^edgewood's cameo a better 

 likeness of his master than any of the paintings. A fine engrav- 

 ing of the cameo is prefixed to Walcott's ' Flora Britannica,' 

 Bath, 17S8. There is no engraver's name. The lower half of 

 the plate is occupied with a garden scene representing three 

 botanists attended by a gardener. The portrait is reversed. 

 It is inscribed " Sr Cha. Linneus, Knt.," and below the plate is 

 " Pubd. 1 May, 1788." 



Inlander's medallion is the foundation for the many profile 

 portraits of Linnaeus that exist. It was introduced by J, Miller 

 into the frontispiece of his ' lUustratio Systematis Linusei,' 

 1777 ; and it is beautifully engraved by Woolnoth in Thornton's 

 ' New Illustrations,' 1807. An engraving in a circular frame on 

 a mural design, with the Linuean arms and motto, Avas executed 

 by A. Akermau. The two warts are here indicated in the jjosi- 

 tions described by Linnseus. " Carolus a Linnc," with five lines 

 of titles, is engraved on a tablet. A copy of this in a small oval 

 frame was engraved by Liebe of Leipzig. 



The frontispiece to Zoru's ' Icones Plantarum Medicinalium,' 

 1784, contains a reproduction of Inlander's portrait on a plate 

 with a winged figure holding a crown over the head, and two 

 small portraits inscribed Tournefort and Ray at the top. The 

 engraver, H. T. Tyrolf, did not know the Linncea in the button- 

 hole of the coat, and he has replaced it with a more familiar 



