concerted signal carried out between the two families, to summon hastily, at night, the nurse at my birth. The above facts have been impressed on me ever since I can remember. Possibly, some day, I may find the deed of the purchase, by my grandfather, of No. 1 Broadway, and a description of the property. Yours very truly, CORNELIA PRIME. HUNTINGTON, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1908. EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL, Esq., Secretary, The American Scenic & Historic Preservation Society, DEAR SIR: Since the writing of my letter to you of Feb. 8th, I have found the following entries in my father Rufus Prime's diary: 66 'Monday, 27 November, 1848: Sold Property 1 Broadway and 1 & 3 Battery Place at Public Auction for $34,300. "Wednesday, 20th December, 1848: Went to Wall St. at 11 a. m. At 3 P. M. delivered Deeds & rec'd payment for Property Corner Broadway & Battery Place." Very truly yours, CORNELIA PRIME, Huntington, N. Y. APPENDIX D. BICENTENARY OF LINNAEUS. Address by GEORGE F. KUNZ, Ph.D., President of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, [271] BICENTENARY OF LINNAEUS. At the Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Linnæus, Held in the City of New York on May 23, 1907. As described on page 82 of this report, George F. Kunz, Ph.D., President of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation. Society, spoke as follows: Linnæus was a great scientist, and the conquests of science have done more to advance the world than wars, which science may yet render impossible. It was thirty years of scientific research in Germany that gave us artificial indigo. It was pure scientific research that led Moissan, Cowles and Acheson to discover independently an abrasive substance of a hardness between the diamond and the sapphire; and then Moissan by scientific deduction worked out the genesis of the hardest and most fearless of gems, which, though obtained only in the form of powder, was still the diamond. Within the past quarter of a century we have seen air, oxygen and hydrogen liquefied, giving us temperatures absolutely unknown in nature before, and also the electric furnace, giving an extreme heat such as has perhaps never existed, unless it be on the surface of the sun. Jade, the Chinese stone, has been known in China for more than a thousand years. Some believe that it was known to a prehistoric race the existence of which was almost unknown to the Chinese, and whose only records extant are found as we find the evidence left of the mound-builders, who passed away before the advent of the white man in North America. It was not until 1866 that Damour, a scientist, separated jade into two distinct minerals, nephrite and jadeite; and one of those into two varieties, jadeite and chloromelanite- facts unknown to the Chinese, though they apparently knew and understood every tiny fragment they had ever seen of this mineral. It was the scientist who took three red stones belonging to the King of Burmah or to the Emperor of China, and proved to him that one was a |