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REGLAD ACADEMIA 
SCIENTARUM SUECIC 
Spec 10) 
SOCIETATIS ENTOMOLOGICAE 
LONDINIENSIS 
Prases, VicE-PR#&sIpEs, Soctt. 
Litteras vestras gaudentes accepimus, et quia indicio sunt 
nobis benevolentiz vestre animique fraterni, et quia 
Carnot LINNzI 
potissimum ad memoriam celebrandam invitamur, quem nos 
entomologiz studiis dediti tanquam scientiz nostre auctorem 
clarissimum ac pene parentem veneratione. unica et pietate 
semper prosequimur. 
Vestrum quidem fuisse illum civem confitemur, neque glorie 
huic vestre invidemus sed de ea potius vobis gratulamur. 
Liceat tamen nobis quoque exteris non alienum vobis putare 
splendorem viri, qui—ut “ Pheebi fax” non Delum solam vel 
Lyciam, sed terras omnes illuminat—ita hominibus omnibus, 
qui in qualibet regione terrarum Nature arcana perscrutantur, 
ductorem se lucisque datorem prebuit semperque prebebit. 
Etiam atque etiam valete ! 
Dabamus Londini die X. m. Maii a. 1907. 
CHARLES O. WATERHOUSE, Preses. 
FREDERIC MERRIFIELD 
EDWARD SAUNDERS | Vice Posie 
Grorce Henry VERRALL 
We were glad to receive your letter, both because it shows 
us your goodwill and fraternal feeling towards us, and because 
it is the memory of Carolus Linnus that we are asked to 
celebrate—the man whom we entomologists regard with special 
admiration and affection as a chief authority on our science and 
almost as its father. 
As you say, he was your fellow-citizen, and we do not 
grudge you this boast but rather congratulate you on it. 
Still, let us foreigners also be allowed to think ourselves not 
unconcerned in the glory of one, who (as the Sun shines on 
