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observations with those of carefully planned and exact experi- 

 ments, you have made great advances in correlating the 

 phenomena of heredity with their underlying phj^sical factors 

 in the germ-cells, and in this way you have contributed greatly 

 to our knowledge of the properties and activities of the living 

 substance. 



In addition to your special investigations on these questions 

 you have published valuable general treatises on Heredity and 

 Sex-determination . 



I now present to you the Trail Award in recognition of your 

 important contributions to the study of the living substance of 

 organisms. 



The recipient made a suitable acknowledgment. 



The A^ice-President in the Ciiair then addressed Sir George 

 Eeid, Gr.C.M.G., the High Commissioner for Australia, and handed 

 the Linnean Medal to him for transmission to Mr. Joseph Heney 

 Maiden. He said : — 



Sir George Eeid ; It gives me sincere pleasure to ask you on 

 behalf of the President to receive and transmit to Mr. Joseph 

 Henry Maiden of Sydney, New South Wales, the Medal of the 

 Linnean Society, which the Council has thought fit to bestow on 

 him. The pleasure is all the greater as it goes for the first time 

 to one of our great dominions over sea. Mr. Maiden was born 

 in this city, but he has by Ids lite-work identified himself with the 

 scientific aspirations of the Commonwealth of Australia. He has 

 for more than tliirty years taken a very prominent share in the 

 study of the Austriiliau Flora and the development of applied 

 botany in tliat country. The number of papers which the pub- 

 lications of this Society and of the Department of Agriculture of 

 New South Wales owe to his zeal and ability is as considei'able as 

 they are excellent. To thera must be added his independent 

 publications, which by their titles indicate the trend of the work 

 that has placed him in the forefront of Australian botanists. 

 There are ' The Useful Native Plants of Australia ' ; ' "Wattles 

 and Wattlebark,' a most valuable work on the genus Acacia ; 

 ' A Manual of the Grasses of New South Wales ' ; ' A Forest Flora 

 of New South Wales'; ' A Critical lleview of the Gtenus Eucalyptus ' 

 — this still in process of publication— and others. 



The knowledge and experience which are laid down in those 

 publications, and have thereby become the invaluable property of 

 the country he serves, and not less so of the Empire and ultimately 

 of Science generally, liave arisen out of his devotion to bis public 

 duties as Government Botanist for New South Wales, as Con- 

 sulting Botanist of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry 

 of New South AVales and Director of the Botanic Garden at 

 Sydney, and matured in the light of his scientific conceptions. 

 As the official positions he holds testify to the trust which his 

 Government puts in him, so the fact of his having served as 



