LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 45 



Summary. 



Sir Jolin Lubbock then moved the followiug resolution, viz. : — 

 That the thanks of the Society be given to the President for his 

 excellent address, and that he be requested to allow it to be 

 printed. This having been seconded by Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 

 ■was carried unanimously. 



The following Eulogia were then pronounced, viz. :— 



On Linnaeus. By Prof. There Pries of Upsala, which, in the 

 absence of the author, was read from the Chair. 



On Eobert Brown. By Sir Joseph Hooker, K.C.S.I., F.K.S. 



On Charles Darwin. By Prof. Flower, C.B., F.E.S. 



On George Bentham. By W. T. Thiselton Dyer, C.M.G. 



EULOGIUM ON LINN.EUS. 



By Peof. Tn. M. Fbies, F.M.L.S. 



PitoFouND was the sleep of the natural sciences througliout the 

 long Middle Age, during which they showed scarcely any signs 

 of life except for a short time among the Arabs. To awake them 

 out of tlie lethargy of centuries required the mighty impulse of 

 the great discoveries which characterize the beginning of a new 

 era. Who, indeed, can wonder that the first utterances of 

 active life exhibit the picture of one suddenly aroused out of 

 sleep ? Hard battles had to be fought before men of science 

 could liberate themselves from the fetters which a narrow-minded 



