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anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, on May 23, under the direc- 

 tion of the New York Academy of Sciences, includes, as previ- 

 ously announced in Torreya, exercises in the forenoon at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, in the afternoon in Bronx 

 Park, and in the evening at the New York Aquarium and at the 

 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. The features of chief botan- 

 ical interest will be the following: In the museum building of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, from 2 to 3:45 p. m., there will 

 be an exhibition of American plants known to Linnaeus, in charge 

 of Professor L. M. Underwood, Dr. John K. Small, Dr. P. A. 

 Rydberg, Dr. Marshall A. Howe, and Mr. G. V. Nash, and also 

 an exhibition of the botanical writings and of portraits of Lin- 

 naeus, in charge of Dr. C. B. Robinson and Dr. John Hendley 

 Barnhart. At 2:45 ^- ^i-- Dr. Per Axel Rydberg will deliver an 

 address on " Linnaeus and American Botany " and an hour later 

 Dr. H. H. Rusby will exhibit selected lantern- slides of North 

 American flowers known to Linnaeus. From 3:45 to 4:30 p. m., 

 such visitors as desire will walk or drive through the grounds of 

 the Garden under the guidance of Dr. W. A. Murrill, who will 

 point out characteristic American trees of species w^ith which 

 Linnaeus was acquainted. A bronze tablet commemorative of 

 Linnaeus, a gift to the city from the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, will be unveiled at 4:30 p. m. at the bridge, thereafter 

 to be known as the Linnaean Bridge, over the Bronx River in 

 Pelham Parkway, in that part of Bronx Park lying between the 

 Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park. . At the unveiling 

 exercises an address will be made by Dr. N. L. Britton, president 

 of the New York Academy of Sciences. The American Union 

 of Swedish Singers will furnish musical numbers. At the Museum 

 of the Brooklyn Institute, at 8 p. m., there will be an address by 

 Mr. E. L. Morris on "The Life of Linnaeus " and by Mr. F. A. 

 Lucas on " Linnaeus and American Natural History," and an 

 exhibition of lantern-slides of " Plants and Animals Known to 

 Linnaeus by Dr. A. J. Grout and Mr. F. A. Lucas." In con- 

 nection with the Brooklyn exercises, songs will be rendered by 

 the Glee Club of the United Swedish Societies. 



The third regular meeting of the Botanists of the Central 



