GAEL VON LINNE AS A GEOLOGIST NATHOKST. 743 



Linne's contributions to the sciences of geology and paleontology 

 were consequently of such a nature and extent that each alone would 

 have secured him a respected scientific name. These have long been 

 overlooked because of the fact that, in spite of their great intrinsic 

 importance, they were overshadowed by the magnificent achievements 

 that linked his name with the biological sciences, and because of the 

 additional fact that geolog}^ at his time did not exist as an inde- 

 pendent science. What we have now seen, however, seems to demon- 

 state that even geology has ever)^ reason to appreciate what Linne 

 has done and accomplished as one of the founders of this science. 



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