an enduring friendship with Bernard Jussieu, at that time 
the indefatigable and masterful Curator of the Royal 
Gardens, who had already sketched the outline of the 
natural system of the classification of plants, which in 
later years was elaborated and published to the world 
by his brilliant nephew and pupil, Antoine Laurent 
Jussieu, in his great work the Genera Plantarum, 
which issued from the press in 1789. 
In place of a formal address in which it might be 
attempted in glittering phrase to proclaim the measure¬ 
less services of “the father of modern botany,” and 
for that matter, of modern zoology, the Carnegie 
Museum prefers to submit on this commemorative 
occasion these lines, accompanied by a picture of the 
microscope which Bernard Jussieu received “as a 
perpetual reminder of the social intercourse which he 
had in August, 1738, with his most delightful comrade, 
Carl Linne.” 
Carnegie Museum <W. J. HOLLAND, 
May 23, 1907 Director 
