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THE hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Linnean Society of London, which is being celebrated on May 24-27, is a very suitable occasion for the publication of its history. Several previous attempts to compile the history of the Society had been made, but they did not come to fruition. In Colonel Gage, the Society was fortunate in finding not only an energetic and faithful historian, but also one whose intimate knowledge of the Society and its archives rendered him peculiarly fit to put on record the growth and development of the Society and the vicissitudes through which it has passed.
A History of the Linnean Society of London
By Lieut.-Colonel A. T. Gage. Pp. 175+11 plates. (London: Taylor and Francis, 1938.) 5s.
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A History of the Linnean Society of London. Nature 141, 895 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141895a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141895a0