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To the PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL of the LINNEAN SOCIETY OF 

 LONDON on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the 

 memorable Meeting of 1st July, 1858. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN, in accepting the invitation 

 of the Council of the Linnean Society of London to send a 

 delegate to the Jubilee Meeting on the first of July, desires 

 to convey, through its representative Lieut.-Col. David 

 Prain, C.I.E., M.B., LL.D., F.R.S., its cordial felicitations, 

 and to express its sympathetic interest in the historical 

 commemoration of the Meeting of July 1st, 1858, when 

 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace read their ever 

 memorable joint essay. In the University of Aberdeen, as 

 in every other seat of learning and research throughout the 

 world, the influence of that Meeting has been for half a 

 century a stimulus to interpretation and investigation in 

 many different fields, and it is with gratitude that the 

 University desires to share in commemorating what must 

 always be regarded as one of the greatest days in the 

 history of science. The University joins in congratulating 

 Darwin's magnanimous colleague Alfred Russel Wallace 

 the doyen of Biologists, the Nestor of the Naturalists' 

 Camp, that he has lived to see the 50th Anniversary of the 

 great achievement in which he shared ; and in congratulating 

 the Linnean Society on the part that it has played in 

 furthering the progress of biological science and evolutionist 

 interpretation. 



(Signed) JOHN MARSHALL LANG, C.V.O., 

 D.D., LL.D., 



23rd June, 1908. Principal of the University of Aberdeen. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Prof. I. B. Balfour, 



F.R.S., F.L.S.) 

 presented the following address : 



