LiyXEAX SOCIETY OF LOXDOX. 6 1 



Eeception by the Presidext and Couxcil in the Eooms of the 

 Societs', BurUngton House, on Friday, 7th June, 1907, from 

 8.30 to 11.0 P.M., in honour of the 200th Anniversary of the 

 Birth of LixxMUS, on the 13/23 May, 1707. 



The guests were received by the President, Professor W. A. 

 Herdman, D.Sc, F.K.S., and Mrs. Herdman, in the Library ; 

 about tliree hundred were present, nearly one-half being ladies. 

 Amongst those present were His Excellency Count Wrangel, the 

 Swedish Minister, other members of the Legation, and several 

 Swedish visitors. Sir Thomas Elliott, Iv.C.B., Secretary to the 

 Board of Agriculture and Eisheries ; Sir Archibald Geikie, Presi- 

 dent of the Geological Society and Secretary of the Royal Society; 

 Sir "William Eamsay, K.C.B., President of the Chemical Society; 

 Sir John Murray, K.C.B., were also present, and other eminent 

 men of science. 



A special feature of the exhibition was a display of manuscripts, 

 books, personal relics, medals, &c., of the great Swedish Naturalist, 

 which belong to the Society ; and the beautiful Inlander medallion 

 was surrounded by a wreath of laurel (which had been used in the 

 conferment of the degree of Phil. Dr. at the recent celebrations 

 at Uppsala) formed of leaves gathered from a bay-tree planted 

 by Linnaeus himself, and lent by the General Secretary ; whilst 

 the Swedish flag formed a background to the small model of 

 Kjellberg's statue of Linnaeus in the Library. 



In the Library the follo\Aing were shown : — 



1. From tlie LixxEAX Relics in the possession of the Lixneax 

 Society of Loxdox. 



(a) Selection of drawers containing Fishes, Lepidoptera, 

 Coleoptera, Shells, &c. 



(h) Portrait of Linnteus by C. F. Inlander; copy of the same 

 in alabaster ; iMedals struck in his honour, including 

 the Linnean Society's Annual award, and the Bicen- 

 tenary Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Photogi'aphs of his father, and his only brother 

 Samuel ; Wood blocks formerly belonging to Linnjeus, 

 engraved for the elder Rudbeck. 



(c) Dried Plants (Zwi?iOBa and BroivalUa) from the Linnean 

 Herbarium to show the method of mounting and 

 naming ; the number at foot refers to the same 

 number in the ' Species Plantarum,' ed. 1. 



{d) Letters from Lixx^eus to Johx Ellis, F.R.S., and in 

 return. 



(e) Interleaved volumes.— 1st and 2nd editions of the 

 ' Species Plantarum,' with copious manuscript additions ; 



