session 1903-1904. 
NXXlll 
U.S. Geol. Surv. Professional Papers. No. 1.—Preliminary Report on the 
Ketchikan Mining District, Alaska, by A. II. Brooks; No. 2.—A Recon¬ 
naissance of the North-Western Portion of Seward Peninsula, by A. J. 
Collier ; No. 3.—The Geology and Petrography of Crater Lake, National 
Park, by J. S. Diller and H. B. Patton; No 4.—The Forests of Oregon,by 
H. Gannet; No. 5.—The Forests of Washington, by H. Gannet; No. 6.— 
Forest Conditions on the Cascade Range, Washington, by F. G. Plummer ; 
No. 7. —Forest Conditions on Olympic Forest-Reserve, Washington, by 
A. T. Dodwell and T. F. Rixon ; No. 8.—Forest Conditions in the North of 
Sierra Nevada, California, by J. B. Leibeng. 
-. Water-Supply and Irrigation Papers. Nos. 65—79. 8vo. Washington, 
1902-3. 
Upsala, University of. Bulletin of the Geological Institution. Yol. v, part 2. 
8 vo. Upsala, 1902. 
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Magazine. 
Vol. xxxii, No. 97. 8vo. Devizes, N.D. 
Purchased. 
Botany, Journal of. Yol. xli. 8vo. London, 1903. 
Michael, A. D. British Tyroglyphidoe. Yol. ii. {Ray Society.) 8vo. 
London, 1903. 
Nature Notes. Yol. xiv. ( Selborne Society.) 8vo. London, 1903. 
Newstead, R. Coccidse of the British Isles. Yol. ii. {Ray Society.) 8vo. 
London, 1903. 
Novitates Zoological Yol. ix, pt. 4 ; vol. x, pts. 1, 2. 8vo. Tring, 
1902-3. 
Year-book of the Scientific and. Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 
. . . 20th Annual Issue. 8vo. London, 1903. 
Zoologist. Series 4, vol. vii. 8vo. London, 1903. 
Visit to the Apartments of the Linnean Society, 
Burlington House, London, 26th March, 1904. 
The members were received, at 3 o’clock, by their President, 
Mr. Daydon Jackson, General Secretary of the Linnean Society, 
who showed the personal relics of Linnseus in the possession of the 
Society, portraits of him, and his library and collections, including 
manuscripts, herbarium, insects, shells, and fish, and gave an 
account of their acquisition, and incidentally of the origin of 
the Society.* 4 
Carolus Linnaeus, eventually styled Carl von Linne, died in 1778, 
and his collections, including his library and manuscripts, were 
then purchased by his son, who, in 1781, spent three months 
in England, partly as the guest of Sir Joseph Banks, and died in 1783, 
having in five years added largely to his father’s collections. 
The collections were then offered by his mother and sole executrix 
to Sir Joseph Banks for the sum of one thousand guineas. When 
the letter with this offer arrived (23rd December, 1783), a medical 
student, James Edward Smith, aged 24, was breakfasting with 
Banks, who told his visitor that he would decline the offer, and 
advised him to make the purchase. Smith wrote to Upsala the 
same day, and concluded the bargain in the following summer, the 
'* The Editor has added to Mr. Jackson’s remarks some information from his 
“ History of the Linnean Collections,” in ‘ Proc. Linn. Soc.,’ Session 1887-88. 
