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2. On a MS. List of the Linnean Herbarium prepared by 

 Linnaeus in 1753-5, with a Catalogue of the genera now existing in 

 the Herbarium, by Benjamin Daydon Jackson, General Secretary. 



The Pbesident then addressed Mr. Van Royen, Councillor of 

 the Netherlands Legation, and in presenting the Linnean Medal 

 to him for transmission to Dr. Melchiob, Tkeub, P.M. U.S., &c., 

 specified as follows the services to science which had weighed with 

 the Council in making this award. 



The President said : — 



SiE, — It is my privilege, in announcing the award of the 

 Linnean Gold Medal this year to Dr. Melchior Treub, of 

 Jjuiteuzorg, to add, as the mouthpiece of this Society, a few 

 sentences as to the high claims of your distinguished countryman 

 in Java whom we now delight to honour. The Council have 

 selected Dr. Treub from among the Botanists of the world as the 

 man whom they regarded as most deserving of the highest 

 distinction it is in their power to bestow. They hope he may be 

 gratified by this tribute from his fellow-workers in this Society, 

 whereby his name is enrolled in the short list of Botanical 

 recipients of the Linnean Medal extending from Sir Joseph Hooker 

 in 1888 to Prof. Strasburger in 1905. 



Dr. Melchior Treub succeeded the late Dr. E. H. C. C. Scheffer 

 as Directeur van 's Lands Plantentuin at Buitenzorg, Java, in 

 November 1880*. Under his administration this renowned 

 Botanical Garden has grown much in material resources and in 

 scientific importance. Dr. Treub has been able especiall}'- to add 

 to the Herbarium and the Museum organised by his predecessor a 

 series of well-equipped laboratories for scientific and technical 

 research. One of his earliest acts was to persuade his enlightened 

 Government, with wise liberality, to found a special laboratory 

 reserved for foreign botanists who might visit Java to undei'take 

 original research and study the living flora of the Eastern tropics. 

 We have only to recall the names and the work of some of these 

 investigators — Graf zu Solms-Laubach, Goebel, Warburg, Madame 

 Weber van Bosse, A. P. W. Schimper, Karsten, A. J. Ewart, 

 Stahl, Haberlaudt, Heioricher are a few from among the many 

 able botanists who have profited by this generous hospitality — to 

 form an estimate of the debt that Botany owes to our present 

 Linnean Medallist. 



Dr. Treub's great administrative gifts have been utilised to the 

 full by the Government of the Dutch East Indies, and his work 

 as an organiser has culminated in the establishment in Java of a 

 really scientific " Departement van Landbouw," whereof the 

 Botanical establishment over which he had so ably presided for a 



* I am indebted to our Vice-President Colonel Prain and to our Ectanioal 

 Secretary, i)r. Scott, for information as to Dr. Treub's career and puDlished 



work. 



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