Carolus Linnaeus

INTRODUCTION 5 LINEAGE AND CHILDHOOD OF LINNAEUS 7 SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY YEARS . . . .21 JOURNEY TO LAPLAND 38 JOURNEY TO GERMANY AND HOLLAND 39 PRACTISES MEDICINE IN STOCKHOLM 48 APPOINTED PROFESSOR AT UPSALA 51 INFLUENCE OF LINNUS UPON BOTANY 52 LINNUS AS A ZOOLOGIST 67 LINNJUS AS AN EVOLUTIONIST 73 3 INTRODVCTIOW HE chapters comprising this little volume consist, primarily, of an address delivered by Dr. Edward Lee Greene at a joint meeting of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Biological Society of Washington and the Botanical Society of Washington, held at Hubbard Memorial Hall, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Carl Linne Carolus Linnaeus, May 23, 1907. The chapter on Linnaeus as a zoologist was contributed by Dr. William Healey Dall as a part of the same memorial exercises. The chapter on Linnaeus as an evolutionist was published by Dr. Greene in the Proceed- ings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. XI, March 31, 1909. The two addresses and the special paper are all here printed in the form in which they were originally presented and practically without revision. It may be doubted if any naturalist has exerted a greater influence in the world than has Linnaeus certainly none other has given to the study of animals and plants an impetus so far-reaching or so long-sustained. Whatever we may claim to have been accomplished by those naturalists who preceded him, we must admit that to Linnaeus we owe the essential feature