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HE chapters comprising this little 

 volume consist, primarily, of an 

 address delivered by Dr. Edward 

 Lee Greene 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 Linne (Carolus Linnaeus), May 23, 1907. 



The chapter on Linnaeus as a zoologist 

 was contributed by Dr. William Healey Dall 

 as a part of the same memorial exercises. 

 The chapter on Linnaeus as an evolutionist 

 was published by Dr. Greene in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 

 Vol. XI, March 31, 1909. 



The two addresses and the special paper are 

 all here printed in the form in which they were 

 originally presented and practically without 

 revision. 



It may be doubted if any naturalist has 

 exerted a greater influence in the world than 

 has Linnaeus; certainly none other has given 



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