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the horizon on my return (on August 11) to the garden 

 at Upsala.' 



He at once prepared his journal for the press, and it 

 was published in the following year. Honours awaited 

 him at home. 



1 Barons H&rleman, Hohken, and Palmstjerna, and 

 Count Ekeblad agreed among themselves to distinguish 

 Linnaeus, and to encourage him by a gold medal which 

 they caused to be struck and dedicated to Count Tessin. 

 On one side was the head of Linnaeus with the inscrip- 

 tion CAROL LINN^US, M.D., EOT. PROF. UPS., ^T. 39.' l The 

 specimen in the British Museum, perhaps a pattern-piece 

 only, is of copper which shows traces of having been gilt. 



1 Charmed with the noble example of his patriotic 

 fellow-citizens, Count Tessin also gave Linnaeus in the 

 following year a token of veneration. He ordered a 

 medal to be struck representing on one side the bust of 

 Linnaeus, and on the other three crowns on which the 

 sun casts his beams, with the simple and eloquent 

 motto ILLUSTRAT, " He illumines." The medal is of silver 

 about the size of a Dutch guilder. In the first crown 

 the heads of an eagle, a lion, and a whale are very con- 

 spicuous ; the two others bear plants and fragments of 

 minerals.' 2 



This would seem something like the Creed and 

 Commandments written on a piece of parchment the 

 size of a florin. The whale looks like a minnow : it is, 

 however, a really elegant medal. 



1 Diary. 2 Stoever. 



