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the forenoon to visiting the formally arranged Botanic Garden, 

 formerly the garden of the Royal Castle. The one Bad feature of 

 the celebrations to the botanical iniests of the University w is the 

 fact that owing to the recent death of the lamented Professor 

 Kjellman, this garden, for the moment, was without a Director 

 and the Chair once tilled by Linnaeus without an occupant. 



The great central Fete, commemorative of the birth of Linnaeus, 

 took place at 2 p.m. on May 23rd in the Aula of the University ; 



this noble hall forms a magnificent semi-circular theatre facing a 

 smaller apse, also semi-circular, which provides an ample stage, 



occupied for the time being by an orchestra and chorus. The 



various delegates, who had assembled beforehand and taken 

 the places assigned them by the University authorities, marched 

 into the hall in procession and filed off to their appointed seats. 

 When this had been done a Royal party, headed by 1 1.1 MI. the 



Prince Regent of Sweden, entered ; the audience rose and joined 

 the orchestra and chorus in singing the Swedish National Anthem. 



The formal ceremonial at once began, with at intervals very 

 beautiful music from the orchestra and the choir. After ail 

 address, delivered by Rector Schiick, the delegates, introduced by 

 a single repr< tentative for each country, presented their addresses : 

 those for the United Kingdom were introduced by Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, the delegate representing the Royal Society of London. 

 The Swedish delegates, in two groups, were introduced after the 

 foreign delegates. The whole ceremony occupied more than 

 three hours ; when it was over the foreign delegates were 

 graciously received in the Chancellor's room by H.R.H. the 

 Prince Regent ; a few of the delegates were subsequently recalled 

 individually in order to receive, at the hands Of the Prince, the 

 insignia of the order of the Polar Star, the decoration bestowed 

 when he lived on Linnaeus himself. 



The afternoon was devoted to various social gatherings, the most 

 striking of which was a students' conceit, given at the Botanical 

 Garden, where the guests had an opportunity of understanding 



how magnificent the singing of 



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really can be. In the evening the guests, divided roughly into 

 those whose pursuits are literary and those whose pursuits are 



scientific, were entertained at dinner by His Grace the Archbishop 



of Upsala, and by the Rector of the University and Madame 

 Schiick. The latter banquet, to which we were invited, was given 

 in the handsome hall of the Norrland Nation, one of the largest 

 of the twelve nations in which the students of Fpsala are grouped. 

 The toasts in addition to Royal toasts were few — the foreign guests, 

 for whom Professor Haeckel replied : the Swedish guests, for 

 whom Count Morner, President of the Royal Swedish Academy 

 of Sciences, responded ; finally the Linnean Society of London, 

 for whom Mr. Carruthers answered. The feast ended at 9 p.m. 

 and the guests adjourned to attend a reception in the University 

 Palace which ended what had been a well filled and interesting 

 lay. 



The morning of May 24th was enlivened at 7 a.m. by the firing 

 of 21 guns from the Castle Battery. To make quite certain that 

 none of their guests should oversleep themselves after the arduous 



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