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and acknowledged, not only abroad but also at home. In 1743 
was chosen member of the Academy of Sciences of Montpellier , wheie 
he kept up his friendly correspondence with Professor de Sauvages; 
seven years after he was defied 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, Gmelin, 
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. Linnaeus received a 
testimony ofrespeft in his own country, which had never yet been 
bestowed on any of his academical predecessors,— a disunion, which 
on account of its unprecedented singularity, became the more flatter- 
ing and encouraging to him. Four patriotic grandees, Counts Eke- 
blad, 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 ALUS. M. D. BOT. PROF. UPS. ALTAI, 
on the other side these words: “ CAROLO GUS 1 AVO 
TESSIN ET IMMORTALITATI EFFIGIEM CAROLI LIN- 
NAA CL. EKEBLAD, ANDR. HOEPKEN, N. PALMSTIERNA, 
ET CAR. HARLEMAN. DIC. MDCCXLVI. 
Linnaeus was highly fond of the portraits of great and celebrated 
men He had collefted 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 was published in 
2 ronper-plate. 
