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and acknowledged, not only abroad but also at home. In 1743 he 

 was chosen member of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier, where 

 he kept up his friendly correspondence with Professor de Sauvagesj 

 seven years after he was elefted member of the society of Thoulouse, 

 and in 1747 member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. In the same 

 year he caused similar honours to be bestowed on several of his learned 

 friends in Sweden: Haller, Jussieu, Sauvages, Gesner, Gmelinj 

 Clayton, Collinson, and Van Swieten were received mem- 

 bers of the Royal Academy at Stockholm^ an honour which had, for 

 the first time been conferred upon foreigners. Linn^.us received a 

 testimony of resped in his own country, which had never yet been 

 bestowed on any of his academical predecessors, — a distinftion, which 

 on account of its unprecedented singularity, became the more flatter- 

 ing and encouraging to him. Four patriotic grandees, Counts Ek.e- 

 fitLAD, HoEPKEN, Palmstierna and Baron Harleman, caused a 

 gold medal to be struck in his remembrance. One side represented 

 the bust of LiNN^us with this inscription-... 



CAROL. LINN^US. M. D. BOX. PROF. UPS. .ETAT. 

 XXXIX; on the other side these words: « CAROLO GUSTAVO 

 TESSIN ET IMMORTALITATI EFFIGIEM CAROLI LIN- 

 N^I CL. EKEBLAD, ANDR. HOEPKEN, N. PALMSTIERNA, 

 ET CAR. HARLEMAN. DIG. MDCCXLVI. 



LiNN;Eus was highly fond of the portraits of great and celebrated 

 men. He had coUeQed many of them in his travels abroad. In the 

 apartments of his house those of the most remarkable botanists were 

 exhibited to view. In 1746 a print of Haller Mas published in 

 2 . copper-plate. 



