May igo/] proceedings s. i. ass'n arts and sciences. 127 



Wilson Ornithological Club, Oberlin, Ohio. Wilson Bulletin. 

 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Milwaukee, Wise. 

 Biilletin, Transactio7is . 



The committee on nominations for trustees reported the following^ 

 nominees: 



Daniel Delehanty, 

 John De Morgan, 

 Stafford Clarence Edwards, 

 Samuel Alexander Henszey, 

 William Armour Johnston. 

 The report of the committee was received and the Association pro- 

 ceeded to ballot. 



Twenty-three ballots were cast, resulting- in the election of the nom- 

 inees suggested by the committee, and the President declared them to 

 be elected trustees of the Association for the ensuing three years. 



The following were elected to active membership: 

 Louis A. Dreyfus, New Brighton. 

 Cornelius G. KolflF, Stapleton. 

 George W. Nock, West New Brighton. 

 James G. Timolat, New Brighton. 



Dr. Arthur Hollick, delegate appointed to represent the Association 

 at the celebration by the New York Academy of Sciences, on May 23, 

 of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, read the following 

 document to be presented by him on that occasion: 



To the New York Academy of Sciences: Greeting. 



It has been said by Taine that "every book and every man may be 

 reviewed in five pages and those five pages in five lines." On this 

 occasion, however, we are not asked to review the life or the books of 

 the man in whose honor we are assembled, but to testify, as briefly as 

 may be, to our appreciation of his work and what this work has meant 

 to his posterity. Such a task is different from that which the reviewer 

 is ordinarily called upon to perform, and to do it justice in words, 

 within a reviewer's recognized limitations, would be impossible in con- 

 nection with the name of Linnaeus. Fortunately, however, words are 

 not necessary, and indeed are superfluous, where this appreciation is 

 so clearly demonstrated in the fact that we accept the principles which 



