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to Nagpur, India. For some time after his return he resided in 

 Edinburgh, and afterwards came to London. The great work of 

 his life was The Encydopcedic Dictionary, to which he devoted 

 seventeen years' unremitting labour. Although not a botanist, Dr. 

 Hunter was interested in plants. During a visit to Bermuda, in 

 1884, he made a small collection, and he published a list of 

 Bermudian ferns in this Journal for 1877 (p. 367, where the date 

 is uniformly misprinted 1864). His plants, among which was 

 the endemic Eriyeron Darretliamis, are in the Botanical Department 

 of the British Museum.. 



Mr. Nathaniel Colgan contributes to the Journal of the Pro- 

 ceedinys of the Eoyal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland (vol. vi. pt. 4, 

 pp. 211-226, 349-361) a valuable and interesting paper entitled 

 " The Shamrock in Literature ; a critical chronology." 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on March 4th, Mr. W. 

 Carruthers exhibited, with the aid of lantern-slides, a series of 

 portraits of Linnaeus, and gave some account of the history of 

 each. In the course of a tour which he had made in Sweden and 

 Holland, he had been fortunate enough not only to see the original 

 paintings, but also to obtain photographs of them, so that he was 

 now able to exhibit exact copies. Putting aside " supposed por- 

 traits," and such as might be termed "fancy portraits" having no 

 claim to authenticity, he had satisfied himself of the existence of 

 eight that were certainly painted or drawn from life, and had been 

 copied more or less frequently by different engravers. The earliest 

 of these was painted by Hoffman in 1737, while Linnaeus was 

 working for his patron Cliffort at Hartecamp, and represents him 

 at the age of thirty in the picturesque dress in which he travelled 

 through Lapland. Of the next portrait, an engraving by Ehrens- 

 verd in 1740, no original is known to exist. In 1747, at the age of 

 forty, two pencil sketches of Linntieus, one being a full length, were 

 made by Kehn ; and five years later a beautiful pastel was executed 

 by Lundberg. Scheffel in 1755 painted him at the age of forty- 

 eight ; and this portrait is preserved at Hammarby in the house of 

 LinnfBus, now public property under the care of Prof. Fries of 

 Upsala. Then came the medallion by Inlander, executed in 1773, 

 of which a copy (one of three) is in the possession of this Society. 

 The following year, when Linnreus was sixty-seven years of age, 

 his portrait was painted by Kraft't, and was placed originally in the 

 Medical College of Stockholm, of which Linujeus was one of the 

 founders. It was supposed to be lost, but had been removed to 

 the Eoyal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, where Mr. Carrutliers 

 discovered it. The latest portrait was that by Eoslin, painted in 

 1775, when Linnaeus was in his sixty-eighth year. A fine copy of 

 this by Pasch, presented to Sir Joseph Banks, and given by him to 

 Eobert Brown, now hangs in the Society's Library. 



We understand that the incompleteness of the enumeration of 

 Kew pubhcations noticed on pp. 100-103 has been discovered to be 



