Record. xxxi 



1846-1847— Adolph Wislizenus. 

 1869 —George W. Letterman. 

 1868-1877— Chas. V. Riley. 

 1873-1874— S. M. Tracy. 

 1874-1904— Henry Eggert. 

 Henry Shaw. 



Dr. H. M. Whelpley discussed ^'The Celts of the North Ameri- 

 can Indians." He described and illustrated the different types 

 and gave their relative frequencies in his collection from the 

 neighborhood of St. Louis. 



May 20, 1907. 



President Woodward in the chair; attendance, forty-nine. 



The program of the evening was composed of four papers on 

 the life and work of Linnaeus. Before introducing the regular 

 speakers of the evening, the President spoke briefly of the pro- 

 priety of the celebration of the anniversaries of distinguished 

 pioneers in science and of the breadth of the work which Lin- 

 naeus did. 



The first paper was presented by Mr. Frederick A. WisHzenus, 

 of the St. Louis Law School, whose subject was '' Linnaeus, His 

 Life and Personality." Professor Wishzenus confined himself 

 strictly to the personal interest side of his theme, presenting 

 only such biological data as would make clearer the habits of 

 life and work which characterized Linnaeus. 



Mr. W. L. Eikenberry spoke on '^Linnaeus as a Botanist." 

 In this paper the speaker first considered the phases of botanical 

 science with the development of which Linnaeus had personally 

 little or nothing to do, such as anatomy, physiology, ecology 

 and the conception of evolution. He then turned to the three 

 elements of greatness in the work of Linnaeus as a botanist. 

 Linnaeus was great as a teacher, great as a systematizer of the 

 materials which were being constantly accumulated through the 

 active explorations of the times, and great in inspiring in others 

 the ambition to go forward with the work which he had begun. 



The zoological paper of the evening was presented by Dr. 

 J. F. Abbott, of Washington University, who spoke on '^ Linnaeus 

 as a Zoologist." He first pointed out the vast progress in 

 taxonomic zoology which has been made since the time of the 

 publication of the Systema Natura, and gave instances of the 



