MEMORY OF LINN^US. 255 



A third Linn-ean Society was formed at Leipsic in the year 1790$ 

 un er the auspices of Professor Ludwig, which has twelve students 

 as ordinary members. 



Among the many marks of honour and distinftion conferred upon 

 Linnjeus and his system after his death, we ought not to omit here, 

 that the present Prince Royal of Denmark had a service of porcelain 

 made, on which the Flora ttanica is beautifully painted and represented, 

 according to the Linn ;E an system*. 



Exclusive of the three medals which have been struck in Sweden, 

 to perpetuate the memory of Linn^us, his portrait has also been 

 frequently engraved. The first portrait which appeared in Ger- 

 many was published at Leipsic, in front of the edition of his Systema 

 Natures, 1798. The best engravings of Linn^us are to be found be- 

 fore the second edition of his Species P/<7n^<3rMw, published at Stock-r 

 holm in 1762; and in the sixth edition of his Genera Planiarum, which 

 appeared in the same city in 1748. In this latter portrait, Linn^us 

 is represented in a loose dress, leaning upon a volume of his System of 

 Nature; and holds a branch of the Linncea in his hand. In the former 

 L;:nn.eus appears in full dress, decorated 'with the Swedish order of 

 the polar star, and below it is the following distich, written by Charles 

 AuRiviLLiuSj the celebrated philologist at Upsal, who died in 

 1786: . ' - • 



*' Hk ilk est, cui regna volens natura reclusit ; 

 " Q^uamque uLli dederat, plura videnda dedit." 



* In the dreadful conflagration which destroyed the royal mansion at Copenhagen, with the 

 most valuable eftefts, this superb nnonumcnt of botanical taste is said to have also perished. 

 Translator. 



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