LINNZAN MEMORIAL ADDRESS. 
By Epwarp L. GREENE. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Tue personality of Linneus and his luminous career as a scientific 
_man make a topic much too large to be presented even in mere out- 
line within the limits of an hour. If this were an assemblage of 
botanists exclusively, still would the time be too short for the worthy 
consideration, not only of Linneus as a botanist in general, but of 
his services to any one only of the several departments of the science 
which it is his glory greatly to have advanced. But then, a botanist, 
a very great botanist, he was also much more than that. I have a 
fancy—it may be more and deeper than a fancy—that a great man in 
whatsoever profession, a man of power in any branch of science, is 
greater than the science to which he devotes himself; that he him- 
self personally is of more moment, and ought to be of deeper interest 
than his science; yes, than all the sciences that are or ever shall be. 
If we could in thought divest Linneus of his systematic botany 
and zoology, we should still find ourselves in the presence of a man 
of the highest educational accomplishments and general culture, 
clear-headed and original as a thinker, a philosopher, religionist, 
ethnologist, evolutionist, traveler, geographer, and a most able and 
polished man of letters. These are many different aspects of a great 
character, the presentation of which, one by one in a discourse, might 
interestedly engage the attention of others besides nature students. 
Confronted by so very much that may be said, and which it might 
seem ought to be said on this day dedicated to Linneus, and, 
checked by the consideration that only a few selections from out the 
‘whole mass may at this hour be taken, where shall one begin? 
Whither shall one proceed? What thrilling passages in a career 
@Pelivered at a joint meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the 
Biological Society of Washington, and the Botanical Society of Washington, held 
at Hubbard Memorial Hall, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary 
of the birth of Carl von Linné (Carolus Linneus), May 23, 1907. Reprinted 
by permission, from the Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 
July, 1907. 
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