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caused their expulsion from the Garden was the identical kind of apple 

 that has caused so many boys to be driven from gardens and orchards 

 wherein they trespass to-day, or whether it was a pomegranate, an orange, 

 a lemon, or some other fruit of which we have no knowledge. If Noah had 

 known a Linnsean system when he took his animals into the ark, and had 

 so named them, how helpful that would be to us to-day ! There would not 

 be the doubt in the minds of the few who still maintain that evidences of 

 the flood are to be found in fossil remains, since these would belong to those 

 animals that were destroyed at the time of the great flood. 



We have recorded a history of the past, to-day we have heard much of 

 Linnaeus and his time: let us speak now of the present. For a quarter of a 

 century it has been our pleasure to know one of the most ardent disciples of 

 Linnaeus that has lived in our land ; and had it not been for his untiring zeal, 

 his keen judgment, his constant application, it is a question whether we 

 would be assembled to-day to dedicate this bridge to the memory of Linnaeus. 

 We remember twenty-five years ago when he first appeared before the 

 Academy of Sciences, and it is almost that long ago that he first suggested 

 a botanical garden. The Botanical Garden undoubtedly influenced the 

 Zoological Park, and each successive scientific institution has strengthened 

 the others, so that, as science stands united to-day. New York is perhaps 

 and will long remain one of the leading scientific cities in the country, if not 

 the foremost; and no one more than our esteemed President of the New 

 York Academy of Sciences, and Director of the Botanical Garden, Dr. N. 

 L. Britton, has assisted in the unification and the advancement of our greatest 

 Academy of Sciences. Dr. Britton was the pioneer with the Botanical 

 Garden. Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, another disciple of Linnaeus, 

 was the pioneer in the Zoological Park, which has been so ably conducted 

 and carried on through that indefatigable worker, Dr. W. T. Hornaday, 

 who brought to his task a world-wide experience of animals, their habitats 

 and their characters. Therefore it seems eminently fitting that this bridge 

 should form a connecting link between these two Siamese Twins, as it were, 

 of botany and zoology in the United States. 



It is science that gives us this well-ordered Bronx Botanical Garden, 

 which, beautiful as it is, is a living botanical exposition, made possible 

 through the organization of Linnaeus, the energy, industry and intelligence 

 of a Britton, the generosity of the founders and its trustees and the encour- 

 agement of our great city of New York. 



Although historic sites and buildings may be marked with tablets or with 

 monuments of stones, yet it was Nero who removed the Greek inscription, 

 and placed his own, over the architrave of the Parthenon. In 1881 we were 

 surprised to see some stone-cutters removing from within the laurel wreaths 



