PHILOSOPHER- SCIENTISTS 



among its early members such men as the celebrated 

 Linnaeus. But after the first impulse had resulted in 

 a few learned societies, their manifest advantage was 

 so evident that additional numbers increased rapidly, 

 until at present almost every branch of every science is 

 represented by more or less important bodies; and 

 these are, individually and collectively, adding to 

 knowledge and stimulating interest in the many fields 

 of science, thus vindicating Lord Bacon's asseverations 

 that knowledge could be satisfactorily promulgated in 

 this manner. 



