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Para, on June 10th. He sailed from Para ou Pebruarv 10th, 

 1830, arriving at i\ilham March 25fch. 



The Honorary Degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon Burchell 

 by the University of Oxford on May 8th, 1834. Although this 

 great natui-alist had some intimate friends he lived a secluded life, 

 and tended as years went on. to withdraw himself more and more 

 from his scientific colleagues, and indeed from all except the 

 members of his family. During the long period which intervened 

 between his return from Brazil in 1830 and his tragic death bv 

 his own hand on March 23rd, 1863, at the great age of 81 or 82, 

 Burchell expended immense labour on the arrangement and 

 labelling of his collections. He travelled in England and on the 

 Continent from time to time, making sketches and doing a little 

 coUeciing. His great Herbarium with a splendid set of manuscript 

 notes is at Kew ; his tine collection of insects, and as much of his 

 other zoological collections as remained in 1863, at Oxford- 

 (Something has been done to publish his wonderful records, and 

 when the whole is before the world it will be realised that he was 

 one of the greatest of travellers and observers. 



The lecturer desired to thank Sir Joseph Hooker for his constant 

 kindness and help in all the earlier parts of his investigations into 

 the history of this grear man. In consequence of his own lecture 

 in Cape Town (Eep. Brit, and S. Afr. Assoc. 1905, vol. iii. pp. 57- 

 110), August 17th, 1905, Professor Poulton was brought into 

 communication with a grand-nephew of ihe great explorer, Mr. 

 Francis Augustus Burchell, of the Ehodes University College, 

 Grrahamstown, and both he and the Rev. Evan Davies, of Springs, 

 Transvaal, had been »:»xtremely kind in permitting the study of 

 drawings, letters, journals, and other records. 



The second address was by the Presidekt (Prof. "W. A. Herd- 

 MA^, E.R.S.), who said :— 



Before passing to the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries, upon which it has 

 been arranged that I am to make some remarks and to show you 

 some lantern illustrations, I desire to say a very few words in regard 

 to the occasion and the manner of our gathering here to-night. 



Briefly it is in honour of Linnaeus and in commemoration of his 

 work. The celebration of the 200th birthday of our eponymous 

 hero, the illustrious Swedish naturalist, Carl von Linne, has been 

 made the occasion of congratulatory meetings in Sweden and 

 elsewhere throughout the civilized world — wherever the JN^atural 

 Sciences are cultivated and the debt of the Naturalist to Linnaeus 

 is gratefully acknowledged. 



On our anniversary meeting, a fortnight ago, held on the reputed 

 birthday of Linnseus, the occasion was formally dealt with in the 

 Presidential Address, and a congratulatory telegram was despatched 

 from our meeting to the L^niversity of L^psala. 



This Society was represented at the celebrations in Upsala and 

 Stockholm by our Past-President, Dr. William Carruthers, as the 

 official delegate, accompanied by our General Secretary, Dr. Daydon 



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