LIN>'EAX SOCIETl" OF LOXDOX. 59 



YII. 



On the Origiual Portraits of Linnaeus. 

 By AViLLiAM Caekutheijs, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



(With Plates 1-8.) 



[Read 21st June, 1006.] 



At the Annual Meeting in May 1SS9, I presented to the Society 

 the results of some investigations into the portraits of Linnaeas. 

 I had not then seen any of the original paintings. But having 

 made a considerable collection of the published portraits, which is 

 now in the possession of the Society, I clas.<ified them, reducing 

 them to nine different types. This opinion has been practically 

 confirmed by subsequent inquiries. I resolved to inspect the 

 authoritative originals frona whic'a these nine types of engravings 

 liad their origin. In 1S9L I visited the various localities where 

 these portraits are preserved. This led me slightly to modify and 

 also to add to the statements pubhshed in the Proceedings of the 

 Society for the Session 1SSS-S9. After too long an interval I 

 venture to place before the Society the results of my further 

 investigations, quickened by the fact that the 23rd of May 1907 is 

 the bicentenary of the birth of Linnaeus, and that special interest 

 will then be shown in evei-y thing that relates to that great 

 naturalist. I procured original photographs of all the authentic 

 portraits, and I trust that these with the notes I submit may be 

 of some interest to the Fellows of this Society. 



I have been much assisted in this work by my friend Mr. xlntony 

 Gepp, F.L.S., and still more by his brother, the late Mr. Hubert 

 M. Gepp, Adjunct Professor in L'psala University, who became 

 much interested in my investigations, secured for me many 

 engravings of Linne, and supplied me with information and with 

 personal help when J. visited Sweden. 



I, 1737. I^oFFMA^'. 



The earliest portrait of Linne' was painted by Martinus Hoffman 

 at Hartekamp, near Haarlem, for Dr. George Clifford, a rich 

 merchant and burgomaster, who was of English descent, his 

 ancestors having been for some time in Holland. Dr. Clifford 

 had a great love for plants, and had collected many rare and 

 interesting specimens iu his fine garden. On the recommendation 

 of Boerhaave, Dr. Clifford engaged Linne to name and classify all 

 his plants. Linne had gone to Harderwyk to take his doctorate 

 iu the university there, which he did on the 24th June, 1735. 

 His funds were exhausted, but the naturalists iu Holland were 

 kind and hospitable : in 1736 he took up his abode at Hartekamp, 

 where he found in the owner of the house a cordial and liberal 



