48 Darwin-Wallace Celebration. 



THE PRESIDENT : We have a considerable number of 

 Academies and Societies who have done us the honour to 

 send representatives, and we shall have to proceed in the 

 same manner in their case as in that of the Universities, and 

 ask two representatives to be kind enough to speak on behalf 

 of the whole number, Professor Lonnberg and Sir Archibald 

 Geikie. 



Professor EINAR LONNBERG said : 



Mr. President, 



My gracious Sovereign, H.R.M. King Gustaf of 

 Sweden, has kindly ordered me to bring to the Linnean 

 Society his hearty greetings and sincere felicitations on this 

 occasion, when you celebrate the memory of one of the most 

 important events in the history of Science. 



Mr. President, 



Next you will kindly allow me to tender to you 

 the address which the Royal Swedish Academy of Science 

 has resolved to present to you. It reads : 



To THE LINNEAN SOCIETY or LONDON. 



The Academy founded by Linnseus sends the 

 heartiest greetings to the distinguished Society which 

 bears his name, and congratulates the Linnean Society 

 on this day of honour when it celebrates the fiftieth 

 anniversary of the commemorable day on which the 

 keys to one of the golden gates which leads to 

 the temple of Natural Sciences overshadowing the 

 fountain of Truth, were presented to this Society by 

 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. 



On behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of 



(Signed) B. HASSELBERG. 



[President.] 

 (Signed) CHR. AURIVILLIUS. 



[General Secretary."] 



When I stand here before you. I dare to say, I am not 

 only speaking by the order of my King, and as a Member 



