MEMORY OF LINNAEUS. 
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A third LinnjEan Society was formed at Leipsic in the year 1790} 
under the auspices of Professor Ludwig, which has twelve students 
as ordinary members.' 
Among the many marks of honour and distin&ion conferred upon 
Linn as us 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 Danica is beautifully painted and represented, 
according to the Linn m 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 
Naturae, 1798. The best engravings of Linnaeus are to be found be- 
fore the second edition of his Species Plantarum , published at Stock- 
holm in 1762; and in the sixth edition of his Genera Plantarum, which 
appeared in the same city in 1748. In this latter portrait, Linnasus 
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^nnjEus appears in full dress, decorated with the Swedish order of 
the polar star, and below it is the following distich, written by Charles 
Aurivillius, the celebrated philologist at Upsal, who died in 
1786 : 
“ Hie ille est, cui regna volens natura reclusit ; 
“ Quamque ulli dederat, plura vidertda dedit.” 
• In the dreadful’ conflagration which destroyed the royal mansion at Copenhagen, with the 
most valuable effects, this superb monument of botanical taste is said to have also perished 
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