Memorials of Linn <z us 



mittee " of the State Council of Sweden recommended that a 

 reward of 12,000 dollars silver money should be given to 

 Linnaeus. It does not appear that Linnaeus received this 

 money, but the date of the award, 1761, coincides with the 

 year in which he was ennobled. Details of this episode will 

 be found in Professor Herdman's interesting presidential address 

 to the Linnean Society, May 24, 1905, published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society, 19045. 



3 LINNJEA BOREALIS. The original specimen collected by 

 Linnaeus at Lycksele in Lapland, May 29, 1732, and sent in 

 1735 to his friend Dr. Gronovius (16901762) of Leyden, with 

 the suggestion that it should bear his name. Linnaeus traced a 

 fanciful analogy between his own early fate and this " little 

 northern plant, long overlooked, depressed, abject, flowering 

 early." A spray of the plant is generally introduced into his 

 portraits. The specimen is from Gronovius's herbarium which 

 was bought by Sir Joseph Banks in 1794,* and is now in the 

 Department of Botany. 



Soon after his arrival in Holland in 1735 Linnaeus became 

 acquainted with Gronovius, who assisted him in publishing the 

 first edition of the Systema Nature (exhibited on the other side 

 of the case). 



4 SPECIMENS OF COLUMBINE (Aquilegia vulgaris] and MARSH 

 MARIGOLD (Caltha palustris) from the herbarium of George 

 Clifford containing the plants described in the Hortus Cliffor- 

 tianus (1737). This is exhibited in the third case and contains 

 an account of the plants, both living and dried, in Clifford's 

 collection at Hartecamp. Linnaeus was introduced to Clifford, 

 a wealthy banker, whose garden at Hartecamp was one of the 

 richest in the world, by Boerhaave, and was engaged to study 

 and superintend the collection. Through Clifford's generosity 



* The Department of Botany of the British Museum, originally known as 

 the Banksian Department, was established in 1827 for the reception of the 

 herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), the famous traveller, collector 

 and patron of botany. Banks bequeathed his herbarium to his curator Robert 

 Brown, at whose death it was to pass to the British Museum ; with Brown's 

 consent it might be removed to the Museum during his lifetime. The removal 

 took place, and Brown became the first Keeper of the new Department. 



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