46 Darwin- Wallace Celebration. 



If the work of Linneus, in 1758, introduced order and 

 method into the classification of living nature, the Darwinian 

 theory of Natural Selection, exactly a century later, gave 

 rational explanation of the order, and grouped the Linnean 

 facts into a consistent Scheme of Evolution. 



There has probably been no more inspiring idea in the 

 history of Natural Science than that contained in the joint 

 essay by Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace read before 

 the Linnean Society on July 1st, 1858 ; and all who under- 

 stand and honour Science will wish to rejoice with the 

 Society that made known to the world the work that has 

 since become the foundation of Darwinism. 



The University of Liverpool is post-Darwinian in history 

 and evolutionary in development. In association with other 

 more venerable and more renowned, but not more appreciative 

 bodies, scientific and educational, this University desires 

 to congratulate the Linnean Society upon the present 

 Darwin- Wallace Celebration, to thank the Society for the 

 leading part it has played during one hundred and twenty 

 years in advancing knowledge and in proclaiming the 

 discoveries of science, and to express the hope that the 

 present Jubilee may be of historic importance as marking 

 the beginning of new service and success. 



(Signed) E. K. MUSPRATT, 



President. 

 (Signed) A. W. W. DALE, 



Vice- Chancellor. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Prof. V. H. Blackman, D.Sc., 



F.L.S.). 



THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (Prof. Denny, F.L.S.). 

 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM (Prof. J. W.Carr, F.L.S.). 

 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL (Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 



F.B.S.), 

 with the following address : 



