332 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINNAEUS 



queen as possible, as our photographers endeavour to 

 make all slender young ladies resemble the Princess of 

 Wales. On the left side of the room is a portrait of 

 Linnaeus himself when young, wearing a decoration of 

 an eight-pointed cross, and holding the Linnoea borealis. 

 There are a good many portraits, here and elsewhere, of 

 Linnasus one in a full curling wig. Perhaps this was 

 part of his personal vanity but do we not all know per- 

 sons who have themselves photographed at least once a 

 year ? yet we never hint at vanity. His best portrait is 

 that by Eoslin. He also considered this the best likeness. 

 ' Linnaeus was below the middle height, strongly made, 

 and he had a habit of stooping, from his constant search 

 for plants when walking.' His head was large, with 

 what Sir W. Jardine calls a strong gibbosity on the 

 back part. This was a marked feature of his cranium. 

 His hair from being flaxen had become brown, his 

 countenance serene, his brown eyes keen and singularly 

 expressive and penetrating ; his senses were all sharpened 

 by practice, and his industry was inexhaustible. There 

 is a good medallion of him, made by Wedgwood, with 

 the curling wig of the period, the order of the Polar 

 Star, and his own personal order, a sprig of the Linncea 

 borealis, at his button-hole. At Hammarby are also 

 pale blue Wedgwood cameos of Solander and Banks, the 

 naturalists, with an inscription, half effaced, concluding 



DISCERE QUID QU^EQUE FERAT REGIO. Banks was of 



Swedish descent ; eighteenth from Simon Banke, who 

 in the reign of Edward III. established himself in 



