70 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OE SCIENCES 



efforts in Austria, has from the very beginning of her existence founded her 

 work on Linne's teaching, and has in progress of time, with the increasing 

 numbers of successful scientists amongst her members, continually contrib- 

 uted to the systematical knowledge of organic life in Bohemia. We need 

 only point out the old classical systematicians of zoology and botany, — 

 M. E. Bloch, Von Stein, K. P. Presl, Lad. Celakovsky, and others who 

 enriched the publications of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in the 

 spirit of Linne. 



And the researches of modern times, so important for the study of organic 

 life in the enormous mass of its zoological and botanical forms, though they 

 are far advanced in their ideas and methods, still must always gratefully 

 remember the invaluable deseils of the great Linne for the foundation and 

 development of biology. 



For the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences : 



K. Vrba, President. 



Dr. V. E. MouREK, General Secretary. 



F. Vejdovsky, Secretary of the Class for 



Mathematical and Natural Sciences. 



La Society de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Suisse. 



La Societe de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve s'associe de 

 grand cceur a la manifestation que font les Societes Americaines pour 

 celebrer le bi-centenaire de Linne. 



Geneve, plus que toute autre, s'y associe avec joie: ses naturalistes tels 

 que les Vaucher, les de CandoUe, les de Saussure ont toujours hautement 

 apprecie I'ceuvre du grand Suedois, et leurs descendants ne peuvent que 

 suivre leurs traces et applaudir a tout ce qui pourra perpetuer la memoire 

 de ce savant. 



Notre Societe adresse done des vceux chaleureux pour le succes de la 

 manifestation americaine, qui sera digne de celui qui a laisse une trace si 

 profonde dans les sciences naturelles. 



A. Brdn, President. 



Specula Vaticana, Rome. 



The Specula Vaticana heartily joins in your celebration of the two hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the birth of Carl von Linn6. 



The astronomers of the Specula recognize a close relation between their 



