Abstract
THE anneal reception given by the president of the Linneen Society, Prof. F. E. Weiss, on October 20, was this year of special interest as it was the occasion of the presentation to the Society on behalf of a number of subscribers of a portrait of the distinguished botanist, Julius von Sachs, painted by his artist daughter Maria Sachs. It is particularly appropriate that this portrait of one of the most eminent of its foreign members should come into the possession of the Society at the present moment, as this month has seen the centenary of Sachs' birth. In commemoration of this event, two former pupils of Sachs, Dr. D. H. Scott and Prof. F. O. Bower, delivered appreciatory addresses and gave some personal reminiscences of the great plant physiologist. Another former student in Sachs' laboratory, Prof. S. H. Vines, was unfortunately prevented by ill-health from being present but in a written address, which was read at the meeting, he dealt more particularly with the stimulus which Sachs' “Lehrbuch der Botanik” gave to the development of botany in Great Britain. There can be no doubt that, distinguished as he was for his contributions to plant physiology, Sachs was a great all-round botanist and an inspiring teacher, whose influence through the many pupils he attracted to his laboratory from all countries was feit wherever botany was studied.
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