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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, U. S. A.," or to 

 "Di. John S. Fulton, Secretary General of the International Congress on 

 Tuberculosis, 714 Colorado building, Washington, District of Columbia, 

 U. S. A." Further information, if desired by persons intending to become 

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Charles D. Walcott, 

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Washington, D. C, February 3, 1908. 



Report by Prof. W. G. Farlow, Representative op the Smith- 

 sonian Institution at the Bicentennial op the Birth of 

 Linnjeus, held at Upsala and Stockholm May 23-25, 1907 



* * * Although the invitations to attend the Linnefest were 

 issued, one by the University of Upsala, the other by the Royal 

 Swedish Academy of Sciences, the celebration was not confined to 

 those two learned bodies, but the whole Swedish nation, from the 

 royal family to the school children, united to honor the memory 

 of their greatest naturalist. The shops were gay with flags and 

 portraits, processions of children paraded the streets, and every- 

 where one saw sprigs of artificial but lifelike Linncca borcalis worn 

 as personal adornments or used as table decorations. 



The formal celebration began on May 21 with a visit to Rashult, 

 the birthplace of Linnaeus, near Lund, under the guidance of offi- 

 cers and students of the University of Lund. In front of the house, 

 which replaces the one in which Linnaeus was born, a commemo- 

 rative obelisk was erected in 1866. Owing to an accident on the 

 journey from Hamburg, I was unable to attend the exercises at 

 Rashult and was obliged to proceed directly to Stockholm, whence, 

 on the morning of May 23, a special train conveyed the delegates 

 and invited guests to Upsala. We were met at the station by the 

 students in a body, bearing the gay banners of the different student- 

 nations, or provinces, each of the thirteen provinces of Sweden 

 having its own club-house, some of them fine, substantial buildings. 

 After a song and a speech, for in their fondness for speech-making 

 the Swedes are not inferior to our own countrymen, the delegates 

 were escorted to their quarters, and there was a general scramble to 

 prepare for the opening exercises in the Aula at noon. The dele- 

 gates, 51 in number from 15 foreign countries, together with offi- 

 cials and invited guests, were escorted to the Aula, and, after the 

 arrival of the royal family, the national anthem was sung, followed 

 by an address from the Rector of the University and the singing of 

 a cantata by a chorus and soloists. 



