44 Darwin- Wallace Celebration. 



TO 

 THE PKESIDENT AND COUNCIL 



OF 



THE L1NNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



GENTLEMEN, 



I am directed by the Senate of the UNIVERSITY OF 

 LONDON to convey to the Linnean Society of London their 

 congratulations on the 50th anniversary of the day upon 

 which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace com- 

 municated to the Society the results of their investigations 

 on the Origin of Species of Animals and Plants. As it 

 recedes into the past, the far-reaching importance of the 

 event which the Society is celebrating becomes more and 

 more manifest. The doctrine of Evolution has touched 

 every branch of human thought and has influenced the 

 course both of intellectual advance and of material progress. 

 Amongst the distinguished naturalists who are members 

 of the Linnean Society many Graduates of the University 

 are to be found. United to the Society, not only by these 

 bonds of common membership but also by the common 

 desire to advance the cause of learning and to enrich the 

 stores of human knowledge, the Senate rejoice to join with 

 you in the celebration of this historic day. 



(Signed) ARTHUR W. RUCKER, 

 July 1st, 1908. Principal. '- 



THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Prof. F. E. Weiss, D.Sc., 



F.L.S.), 

 with the following address : 



THE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY 

 OF MANCHESTER. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER begs to offer to the Linnean 

 Society of London its congratulations on the occasion of the 

 anniversary of the joint presentation to that Society of 

 the papers of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, 

 setting forth their theories of the Origin of Species. 



