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It will thus be seen that two of these works mark very im- 
portant epochs in the classification of insects; these are, the 
first edition of the Fauna Suecica, wherein the seven much 
more natural orders of insects are instituted and many new 
genera founded ; and the tenth edition of the Sy sterna Natures, 
in which the binomial system of nomenclature is placed upon 
a firm basis. 
A few words in regard to the real name of this great naturalist 
may not be out of place. Students of his published writings 
have been sorely puzzled over the fact that whenever he had 
occasion to sign his name, whether in the dedication of the 
volume or at the end of the preface, he at first wrote his name 
Linnaeus, but in his later works it appears as "von Linne." 
Historians inform us that the grandfather on the paternal 
side was a peasant by the name of Tiliander, and that his 
son, the father of the naturalist, in accordance with the custom 
then prevailing in Sweden, changed his name to Linnaeus at 
the time he entered the University, and his son also used 
this name until the year 1761, when the King of Sweden issued 
to him a patent of nobility under the title of Carl von Linne 
a curious admixture of German and French. It will thus be 
seen that Linnaeus was not his academic or assumed name, 
as some have supposed, but was his legitimate name, inherited 
from his father, and that it was later changed to von Linne 
by royal decree. 
Turning now from a consideration of one whose work com- 
prised the entire realm of nature, it may not be out of place 
here to call attention to a recent important event in the history 
of an organization whose object has been to investigate only 
one of the numerous branches of Natural History. In view 
of the fact that the year just passed marks the twentieth anni- 
versary of the founding of our Society, a brief retrospect of 
its history and work may ^ be of some interest to the members 
and others interested in its welfare. 
The Society took its inception on Friday evening, February 
2Qth, 1884, in response to a call signed by Messrs. C. V. Riley, 
E- A. Schwarz, and L- O. Howard. At the following meeting, 
