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Juiio 1, 1S20." Another painting by Hallman, wliich had been 

 the property of Louisa, the last surviving daughter of Linnaeus, 

 nnd after licr death of Dr, P. A. Martin, a great-graudson of 

 Linnffius, was purchased by Sir Jolin Lubbock, Bart., and by him 

 presented to the Society. It is painted iu oil on parchment, 

 8 inches by 6 inches, and has this long inscription on the back : — 

 " Carolus a Linne ; Equ. Ord. Ueg. Stellac Polaris, Eegis Sueciae 

 Archiater, Medicinae & Botanicis Professor iu UniA'ersitate Eegia 

 TJpsaliensi ; Acad. Keg. Scient. Stockholm. Upsalae. Paris. Loudon. 

 Petrop. Berol. Florent. Montpell. Toulous. Bern. Vien. Ediub. 

 Trundh.Celle.Philadelph.Zeeland.Socius. Natusdiel3 Maij 1707. 

 Denatus die 10 Januarij 1778. Deam luctus angit amissi Cybele. 

 Magu. IlMllman pinxit." A similar inscription is on the back of 

 the portrait belonging to the Medical Paculty at Upsala, but the 

 date is given " Afmalad 1774 af Magno Hallman." Mr. Gepp 

 writes, in reference to the Latin quotation at the close of the 

 inscription in both pictures, " This is evidently a quaint adap- 

 tation of Ovid Metani. xiii. iii. 3, ' Cura Deam propior luctusque 

 domesticus angit Memnonis amissi,' where Aurora is referred to, 

 Cybele being naively added as the goddess of generative nature, 

 to make the quotation appropriate." 



Excluding the Hammarby portrait dated 1769, 1 have no doubt 

 that the others by HfUlman are copies of Eoslin's painting with 

 slight modifications in the dress. The position of the head and the 

 expression of the features are precisely those in Eoslin's portrait, 

 and could not have been so exactly reproduced in the original 

 and independent work of another artist. It may be that Hallman 

 painted the " tolerabJe daub " at Hammarby from life in 1769, 

 but it seems to me more probable that all his works are copies of 

 Eoslin's portrait with unimportant modifications. 



Dr. Bovallius has sent two photograplis to the Society of original 

 portraits in his possession, which he believes are those of Linuoeus. 

 The one is a half-length oil painting signed " Hoffman 1775." 

 The positiou of the figure and the aspect of the face are precisely 

 those of Eoslin's portrait painted in the same year. There are 

 some differences in unimportant details, but the smoother and 

 flatter face and the straighter nose are defects iu so far as they 

 diiier from Eoslin's work, whicli, according to Linnaeus, was 

 painted " so excellently that none could be more like." It seems 

 to me probable that this portrait is after Eoslin, and perhaps 

 Hoflman may have known Linnajus and so modified his treat- 

 ment of the face as to make it, in his opinion, a better 

 portrait. 



The second photograph sent by Dr. Bovallius is from an 

 Indian-ink sketch. This was bought in Holland, and though it 

 presents some points that recall the portrait of Linnaeus, it 

 exhibits a iace that differs so much in the outline of the fore- 

 head, the lines of the eyebrows, the shape of the nose, the 

 expression of the mouth, and the form of the cliin, that I cannot 



