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THURSDAY, MAY 23rd, 1907. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING, 



A Special General Meeting of the Society was held in the 

 Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Thursday evening, 

 May 23rd, 1907, to mark the occasion of the Bicentenary of Carl 

 von Linn^ (1707-1778). 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The President offered a hearty welcome to the guests of the 

 evening — Count Birger Morner, Consul for Sweden; President 

 David Starr Jordan, of the Leland Stanford University; Mr. L. 

 W. Marcker, Consul for Denmark; Mr. P. Board, M.A., Under- 

 Secretary for Public Instruction; Mr. Alexander Mackie, M.A., 

 Director of the Training College; Mr. Henry Deane, M.A., F.L.S., 

 &c., President, and Mr. F. B. Guthrie, E.C.S., Hon. Secretary of 

 the Royal Society of New South Wales; Mr. J. H. Maiden, 

 F.L.S., &c., President of the Historical Society of New South 

 Wales. 



Programme. 



Introductory Remarks by the President, 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.vSc. 



The Invitations received from the Royal University of Upsala and the 

 Royal Swedish Academy, Stockholm, and the Replies thereto. 



SOCIETATlj I^TNNAENANAE 



quae in urbe Sydney est 



S.P.D. 



UNIVERSITAS R^GIA UPSALIENvSIS. 



Praeterierunt hoc anno duo saecula, postquam natus est 



CAROI^US IvINNAKUS, 



decus illud Universitatis Upsaliensis et totius patriae nostrae. Con- 

 sentaneum est hoc potissimum tempore grate animo nos ea recordari, 

 quae vir ille ad arcana naturae revelanda et maxime quidem ad 

 botanices scientiam adaugendam atque promovendam felici labore 



