seven to Von Duisburg’s list, making, as had Kluyskens,
a total of twenty five.
I myself.have been able to discover no less than thirty
two additional medals of Linnaeus,making in all fifty seven
atpresent known.Of these, one is in the collection of the
United States Mint at Philadelphia; one in that of the
American Numismatic Society in New York; one in that
of the Newport Historical Society; one in that of the
University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia (i); eight in
that of the U. S. Government at the Army Medical Museum
in Washington (2); and twenty one in that of the
Boston Medical Library (3). Of these last, through the
courtesy of the Library authorities, nineteen were exhibited
at the recent celebration by the N. Y. Academy
of Sciences, of the two hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Linnaeus.
It will be interesting to mark the relative appreciation
in which the memory of Linnaeus has been held in different
countries, as shown by their numismatic offerings.
The following enumeration will verify this.
I. I r e l a n d . One medal.
Dublin.
1. Obverse. Two heads, jugate, to left. At left : LINNAEUS
At right : CUVIER. Beneath : W. WOOD-
( 0 This collection, purchased not long since, by the University of Pa., was
formed by Dr. Wm. S. Disbrow of Newark, New Jersey.
(2) Originated by the late Dr. Wm. Lee, of Washington, District of
Columbia.
(3) This is my own very large collection, presented to the Library in
memory of my father, the late Prof. David Humphreys Storer, who-practised
medicine in Boston for over fifty years, was professor of obstetrics in Harvard
University, and was known to scientists by his writings on ichthyology.
HOUSE. Inscription : R • ZOOLOG • SOG • OF IRELAND
| • MDCGGXXI ■
Reverse. A giraffe. Inscription : ADMIT BEARER
TO THE GARDENS — PHOEx PARK ON SUNDAY
AFTER 2 O’CLOCK | GIRAFFE BORN IN LONDONip
27 MAY 1841 jjpRESENTED BY ZOO ■ SOC i OF |
LONDON 5 JUNE x844- Exergue : W. W. F.
Bronze, white metal. 3o mm. Duisburg, p. 67,
CLXIX, 5 ; Binder, p. 5 7 2 , No. i6t; Fraser. Journal0 /
Royal' Hist, and Arch. Ass’n o f Ireland, VII, p. 619;
Batty (1), II., p. 374, N°- 3740. In the Boston Collection.
II. H o l l a n d . One medal.
Amsterdam.
2. Obverse. Shield, with the letter L, and flowers,
plants, spade, sickle, etc. At right : J. ELION F. In scription
: KONINKLIJKENEDERLANDSGHE TUIN-
BOUW-MAATSCHAPPIJ LINNAEUS.
Reverse. Blank.
Bronze. 4° ntm. Struck in 1867. Tijdschrift van het
Koninkli/k Nederlandsch Qenootschap voor Munt- en
Penningkunde, 1900, p. 249, No. 106. -
III. G e r m a n y . One medal.
Stuttgart.
3. Obverse. Within deeply depressed oval, bust to
left, with frill, flowing hair, and twig of the Linnaea
borealis. At right, perpendicularly, 1707 1778. Inscription,
in left upper corner : Z. 200 | JAEHR In right
upper corner : FEIER | 1907. In both these corners
(1) Descriptive Catalogue of the Copper Coins of Great Britain. Man~
Chester, 1868, 4'*.