8 president's address. 



names bestowed by Carl von Linne are not indigenous and were first 

 described and named from specimens brought from other countries 

 which the species inhabit, as well as Australia. On this account, 

 Australian naturalists have not that direct and inevitable 

 interest in and concern with the Systema Naturae as Carl von 

 Linne left it> that naturalists of Europe, Asia, Africa and 

 America have. The Australian naturalist's interest in the 

 Systema, as far as strictly indigenous species are concerned, 

 begins with the later editions. Hence it is that the works of 

 Carl von Linne, and especially the earlier editions, are not so 

 easily to be found in Australian libraries as in those of other 

 countries. In our own case, too, one library, including about 

 1,000 volumes the cream of Sir William Macleay's private 

 library, was destroyed by fire, and some of the works represented 

 in that library have not been replaced. However, thanks to the 

 liberality and kindness of Professor Fries, donor of his Biographj- 

 of Carl von Linne, of the Royal Academy of Sciences Of Stock- 

 holm, and of the Royal University of Upsala, our drawbacks in 

 respect of want of literature have been largely if not altogether 

 dissipated. [For a list of the memorial edition of a number of 

 the works of Carl von Linne so presented, see pp.391, 932, 934 of 

 Proceedings for 1907]. 



We have to regret that our distance from Europe left Dr. J. 

 P. Hill, our chosen representative in London, so little time to 

 make arrangements for setting aside some important work with 

 which he was engaged when the Society's mandate reached him, 

 that he was quite unable to justify the Society's choice of him, 

 or communicate with it respecting some one to take his place. 



To Count Morner, Consul General for Sweden, in particular, 

 to Professor David Starr Jordan, to the other visitors and to all 

 the Members who were present at or took part in the evening's 

 proceedings the Society is greatly indebted for a pleasurable and 

 profitable evening of an altogether unusual character. 



The visit of Dr. Jordan for the purpose of delivering a course 

 of University Extension Lectures was a noteworthy event of last 

 year, and afforded Australian biologists and educationalists an 



