40 Darwin-Wallace Celebration. 



history this University has not altogether failed to contribute 

 to the advancement of the Sciences more directly connected 

 with this joyous occasion. We call to mind that one of 

 our Students, Sir Andrew Balfour, after studying Natural 

 History and Medicine at St. Andrews two hundred and 

 fifty years ago, was later in his life the Founder, at 

 Edinburgh, of the first Botanic Garden in Scotland, where 

 in a short time he had in cultivation, from seeds obtained 

 from Blois, Paris, and elsewhere, more than one thousand 

 species. This is now represented there by the celebrated 

 Royal Botanic Gardens in which the great Darwin doubtless 

 studied. In the sister science of Zoology, St. Andrews, 

 alone of all the Scottish, or even the English Universities, is 

 equipped in its Gatty Marine Laboratory with unrivalled 

 facilities for the study of marine fauna. Nor can we forget 

 that the " Vestiges of Creation." the principal forerunner 

 and poineer of the views of Darwin and Wallace, was 

 written in St. Andrews by one of her most distinguished 

 citizens. 



We earnestly trust that this occasion, great and memorable 

 as it is in the history of the Linnean Society, will be but 

 the beginning of a new era of advancement and usefulness. 



(Signed) JAMES DONALDSON. 

 (Principal and Vice-CJiancellor of tJie University.} 



The University, St. Andrews, June 1908. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Prof. John Graham Kerr, 



M.A., F.L.S.). 



THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Lieut.-Col. Pram, C.I.E. 



F.R.S.. F.L.S.) 

 presented the following address : 



