AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS, 
[THIRD SERIES] 
Art. XXVI—Anniversary Address of the President to the 
Linnean Society, May 24, 1873. 
_THE anniversary address this year before the Linnean So- 
ciety was devoted to some considerations growing out of “the 
recent progress of the study of Vegetable Anatomy and Physi- 
ology.” It is interesting to notice how topics of this sort are 
handled by a consummate systematic botanist who has never 
paid attention to vegetable anatomy and physiology, either for 
their own sake or as a professional expounder, but who appre- 
ciates their bearings upon his own department of the science. 
Mr. Bentham’s address opens with the following passages :— 
Germany—and that we are, in short, comparatively deficient in 
what the Germans are pleased specially to distinguish by the 
cology. Without admitting 
comparative anatomy, the mutual relations and consequent nat- 
ural arrangement, and the geographical distribution of the higher 
