Reverse. Within a circle : EXPOSITION | DEpLA
STRROYALELINNÉENNE | DE | BRUXELLES. Above,
a serpent and patera; below, a wheeled plough ; at each
side, a beehive. Inscription : ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE
| FETES NATIONALES DE 1886.
Bronze, gilt. 5o mm. In the Boston Collection.
55. Obverse. Within wreath of flowers, fruit and
grain, tied by ribbon : LINNE — TOURNEFORT —
MILLER - JUSSIEU — LAMARCK — GESNER -
BAUHÎN.
Reverse. A garland of flowers and fruit, interlaced
with which, upon a uniting hand : LOBEL CLUSIUS
DODONÆUS RHEEDE RUM PHIUS BOERHAAYE JA-
CQYIN Within field : SOCIETAS | REGIA | HORTICULTURE!
I BELGII I BRUXELLIS
Bronze. 5o mm. Guioth, Revue beige. 1848, p. n 3,
No. 187, and i 853, p. 2o3. No. 27; Kluyskens, II,-
pp. 146, 166; Dirks (1), I, p. 227, No. 285; Storer,
The Sanitarian, Nov., 1889, No. i i 5 2 .
Liege.
56. Obverse. Bust, decorated, to left. Beneath : DIS-
TEXHE„ Inscription : SOCIETE ROYALE D’HORTICULTURE
ET D’AGRICULTURE DE LIÈGE
Reverse Within a wreath of flowers and fruit, the
city arms; a shield bearing monument supported by
lions, at sides of which : L — G
Silver, bronze. 42 mm. Kluyskens, II, p. 162, No. 11 ;
Ibid., Num. Linn., p. 6, No. x3 ; Duisburg, p. 2 0 4 ,
DXXXVII, 3 ; Hildebrand, p. 16, No. 44- 1° the
Boston Collection.
(1) Méreaux des Corporations de métiers des Pays-Bas
A7. Obverse. Bust of Linnaeus, within an oval of
flowers and ears of grain, and crowned by a genius.
Beneath : H. DISTEXHE.
Reverse. The city arms, within a wreath of flowers
and fruit. Inscription: SOCIETEDESCONFERENCES
HORTICOLES * LIEGE *
Silver, bronze 5o mm. Kluyskens, Num. L in n .,p . 6,
No. i 4 ; Snoilsky, p. 9, No. 17 ; Riippell, 1876, p. 21,
No. 20; Guioth, III, p. 37, No. 199.
That Belgium has been second to no country in its
efforts to perpetuate the memory of Linnaeus is pleasant
to recognize at this moment when the world’s numismatists
are assembled in Brussels. Physicians as well as
botanists, and indeed all naturalists, should vie with
each other in praising the comparative activity of the
Royal Linnaean Society of Belgium in striking its long
series of Linnaean medals.
Newport, Rhode Island,
U. S. A.
H o r a t io R. S t o r e r