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BIOLOGY AND ITS MAKERS 



privations in his earlier years, found himself, at the age 

 thirty-four, established in a position which brought him rec- 

 ognition, honor, and large emolument. 



In May, 1907, the University of Upsala celebrated tl 

 two hundredth anniversary of his birth with appropriate cei 



Fig. 34. — Linnaeus at Sixty, 1707-1778. 



emonies. Delegations of scientific men from all over th< 

 world were in attendance to do honor to the memory of the 

 great founder of biological nomenclature. 



