''Systema naturae'' | Giambattista della Porta, founder of the ''Academia Secretorum Naturae'' | De divisione naturae |
Curtis simply repeated the mistake of A.H. Haworth, who had in his 1811 volume of Lepidoptera Britannica discussed a Cnephasia under Clerck's name, but the original misidentification may well go back to Linnaeus' treatment of "T. logiana" in Systema naturae.
In 1758, Carl Linnaeus in Systema naturae named the domestic dog “familiaris” and added other dog classifications or species.
The front of the medal features an illustration by Linnaeus of Andromeda (mythology) next to one of the plant he named Andromeda, from his 1732 expedition to Lapland and on the back, a spiral design made from illustrations taken from Systema Naturae.