257 



To the courtesy of Sir Joseph we owe an opportunity of 



examining 



medallist's 



to publish here copies of the correspondence connected with one 

 of the most interesting events in the history of Kew. 



Correspondence relating to the Award of the Gold 



Medal Commemorative of the Bicentenary of 

 Linnaeus. 



Foreign Office to Sir Joseph Hooker. 



Foreign Office, 



June loth, 1907. 



Sir, 



I am directed by the Secretary of State to forward to yon, 



herewith, the Gold Medal, commemorative of the Bi -nonary of 

 Linnaeus, struck for award to the most illustrious Living exponent 

 of botanical science, which the Swedish Academy has conferred 

 upon you. and which, in your absence, was presented to Sir R. 

 Rodd, His Majesty's Minister at Stockholm, by the Crown Prince 

 of Sweden with the request that he would cause it to be 

 forwarded to you. 



Sir R. Rodd reports that at the Memorial Meeting held on 

 May 27th, which was attended by delegates from many foreign 

 countries, the President of the Academy, Count Morner, passing 

 from Swedish to English, referred to your great services to 

 cience in a speech of which copy is enclosed, at the conclusion 

 of which the Crown Prince handed the Medal to Sir R. Rodd 

 with cordial expressions of the gratification which the Award 

 had given him. 



Sir E. Grey wishes to associate himself with these sentiments 

 and desires me to express his pleasure in giving effect to the 

 wishes of the Crown Prince. 



I am, etc., 



(Signed) Eric Barrin<;t<>n. 



Sir Joseph Hooker, G.C.S.I., C.B., 



The Camp, 



Sunningdale. 



(Enclosure.) 



Your Royal Highnesses, 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, 



Having reminded you of the works of Linne I will add that 

 in the eighteenth century he was King in the realm of Flora. 



In the nineteenth he has been followed by worthy successors. 



