Small Talk about Linnæus

Abstract

THIS seems to be a publication intended for the collector rather than for that large circle which is genuinely interested in the scientific work of Linné. The title scarcely indicates either its subject or the variety of curious and entertaining matter which the booklet contains. It expresses indeed little more than the fact that the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Linne's death, in 1928, was celebrated more in Berlin than in any other place, and that an article on Linné's relations with Berlin, which Dr. Bryk of Stockholm wrote for the Berliner Tageblatt, but which did not appear, is now first published. The editor, C. L. Hansen, has, however, included the address Linné as artist, delivered on that occasion by Dr. Bryk, as well as a lecture that he gave on Linné from the bibliophil point of view.

Linné und Berlin.

Felix Bryk. Berliner Festschrift zu Linné's Hundertfünfzigstem Todestage, 1778–1928. Pp. xv + 59. (Neubrandenburg: Gustav Feller, n.d.) n.p.