74 ANNALS NEW YONK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



him fitting occasion for expressing gratitude to God; of the distinguished 

 scientist on whom the world's greatest prizes had been freely showered, 

 selecting one of the most unobtrusive of plants to perj^etuate his own name. 

 After two hundred years, Carl von Linne enters into full possession of his 

 own well-earned estate, an estate fixed deep and indelibly in the heart and 

 affections of every student of nature. 



John D. Enys, President. 



E. W. Newton, Secretary. 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester, England. 



The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society willingly joins with 

 the New York Academy of Sciences in its commemoration of the two hun- 

 dredth anniversary of the birth of the illustrious Linnaeus. 



His profound insight into the affinities and disresemblances of organized 

 beings; his vivid differentiation of natural groups; his pithy, crisp charac- 

 terization of orders, genera and species; and his binomial principle of nomen- 

 clature, — all exercised a profoundly stimulating influence upon the progress 

 of biological science. 



Nor must the personal merits of the man pass unrecognized. His acknowl- 

 edgment of the work of his predecessors, his self-sacrificing labors, the en- 

 thusiasm with which he inspired his students, and his remarkable humility 

 — so fittingly commemorated in the Linnoea borealis — are qualities which 

 provoke the admiration of naturalists, alike in the hemisphere in which he 

 worked and in the hemisphere in which this commemoration is being held. 



Harold B. Dixon, President. 

 Francis Jones, 1 Honorary 



Frederick William Gamble, j Secretaries. 



Professor James Geikie, University of Edinburgh. 



(Honorary Member of the Academy.) 



1 deem it a high honor to be invited to place a little stone on the ever- 

 increasinff cairn raised by lovers of science all the world over in memory 

 of Carl von Linne. The distinguished Swedish naturalist has made a name 

 for himself that can never die. Admirable as an exact observer and care- 

 ful collator of evidence, and no less admirable as a generalizer, he is an 

 ensample to every sincere student of nature. Before this bright genius 



