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VIII. 1773. Inlander. 

 By command of the King a profile model in wax of Linne was 

 made by Carl Fi'idr. Inlander in 1773. This medallion is preserved 

 in the house at Hammarby. On the back of it is inscribed in the 

 handwriting of Linuc : — 



« Carl V. Linng. 



1773. Aucr. 17. 



Carl Fridr. Inlander 



bor i Stockholm Giothg-ataii ; 



Glasmastare Skiiild." 



The last three lines were kindly translated for me by 

 Dr. Skottsberg (July 5, 1906)— 



Carl Fridr. Inlander 



lives in Stockhohn, Giothpratan; 



[at] Glassmaker Skiuld. 



This must be considered the original portrait, but Inlander pro- 

 duced two rephcas : one of these is in the possession of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, and the other was presented to 

 the Linnean Society by Sir Joseph Banks on the 2nd February 

 1790, and is now hanging in our library. These medallions are 

 all certainly by Inlander, and may therefore be looked upon as 

 equally authentic portraits. In a letter from Linne, written on the 

 day after Inlander finished the medalHon, he says that Inlander 

 " has modelled me in wax so skilfully that all say they had never 

 seen anything more skilfully done or more like me." 



The reproduction in the royal medal by Liungberger, which was 

 issued in 1778, is far from satisfactory. 



Prof. Tullberg has a silhouette reduced to about two- thirds of 

 the original and looking to the left. 



The alabaster medallion presented to the Linnean Society by 

 the Medical Society of Stockholm is a reproduction of Inlander's 

 portrait. 



The beautiful Wedgwood Cameo was no doubt reproduced 

 from the Inlander medallion in the possession of the Society. 



IX. 1774. Kbafit. 

 In the following year, 1774, Per Krafft, a famous Swedish 

 painter, and member of the Stockholm Academy, painted a portrait 

 of Linne for the College of Physicians in Stockholm (formerly 

 Sundhets Collegium, now Medicinalen Styrdsens), to be placed 

 on the wall of their meeting-room as one of the founders of the 

 College. It is a half-length, nearly full face but turned very little 

 to the left, with the eyes directed towards the spectator. The 

 left hand rests on the back of an octavo volume, holds a plant of 

 Linncea, and partly covers the cross of the Polar Star. The 

 portrait was for some years at the College of Physicians, and was 

 engraved by Akrel in 1797, while it was still there. In March 

 1890 Prof. Thtire M. Fries informed me that the portrait existed 



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