196 Scientific News. [ March, 
for a man of less enormous ey and still mo every letter 
of his is a scientific treatise of great value. It is 
he once was cured from podagra by the arrival o Kalm’s large 
PER from North America. To him the natural history was 
“ gaia scienzia,” and it was at the same time a form of devotion 
f the Creator, free from all selfishness. He ardei himself as 
pontifex m the temple of Nature. “I have,” so he says in his 
preface to Systema Nature, “I have seen the eternal, infinite, om- 
niscient, see Toe God. I have seen Him and been dumb with 
astonishment.” : 
In the Royal Acadenty of Science in Stockholm, was gathered 
the same evening, an illustrious assembly of all that the Swedish 
capital has eminent in science. This Academy was founded by 
Linnæus and his friends. The festival oration was read by Gen- 
eral Wede, the Præses of the Academy. King Oscar read a tele- 
graphic greeting in Latin from the German Academy of Science 
in Frankford on Main, and also his answer in the same lan- 
guage. Before the meeting was dissolved, the academy decreed 
an appropriation to a great-grand-daughter and a great-great- 
grand-daughter of Linnzeus, both living in rather indigent cir- 
cumstances. 
To the great number of busts, medals and portraits of Linneus, 
previously existing, have on this occasion been added a well exe- 
cuted copy of the portrait of Linnzus, at the age of 67, painted 
by Roslin, and a new medal by Mrs. Lea Ahlborn. The large 
statue of Linnaeus for which EE have been collected all 
over the country, on the invitation of the Academy of Science, 
had not r been completed.— F. Lindahl. 
roposed to issue by subscription a catalogue of scien- 
tific serial publications in all languages, which has been prepared 
by Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, librarian of the American Academy 
of Arts and Sciences, and formerly librarian of the Boston Soci- 
ety of Natural Histo 
This work, which has double the extent of any existing list of 
the like kind, aims-to include rt transactions of societies and inde- 
o fan in every branch of natural, mathematical and 
their respective countries. Cross references are given wherever 
desirable. It will be printed in octavo, will extend to almost 300 
pages, and will be delivered, bound in cloth, to subscribers at four 
dollars the copy. Other copies will be printed on one side of the 
leaf, to be cut up for mAN use, and will be delivered in 
folded sheets at five dollars the c 
Intending subscribers may aidreas Justin Winsor, librarian of 
Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 
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