Librarian @LinneanSociety 📚 Secretary @SHNHSocNatHist 🌱 Trustee @NewburyPride 🏳️🌈
London / Newbury
Joined April 2009
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Linnaeus attempted the classification of the entire natural world in Systema Naturæ, describing the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. A few Linnaeus Link partners own the first edition (1735) bit.ly/3gfUiX2. Image from the @LinneanSociety copy #CollectionsUnited
ALT Double-Spread of three kingdoms from Systema Naturæ 1735
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Linnaeus’s apostles travelled to promote his system. Daniel Solander worked at the BM before joining Joseph Banks on Cook’s first Pacific voyage. Jonas Dryander, another apostle, succeeded him as Banks’s librarian. Dryander gifted Banks this book bit.ly/3ge4eQZ
ALT Title Page from Deliciæ Naturæ
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A curious story… we don’t know how but a page from our Egerton MS 2037 of autobiographical notes by Linnaeus ended up @LinneanSociety, but at least it’s digitised! bit.ly/2WVtcNa This page describes a young Linnaeus struggling to afford the essentials #CollectionsUnited
ALT Missing Page from Egerton 2037
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The Michel Adanson Library @CarnegieMellon Hunt Institute holds a copy of Species Plantarum (L.) given and inscribed by Linnaeus to Bernard de Jussieu, who later gave it to his student Michel Adanson. Andanson seemed to find more errors on this page than Linnaeus did (R.)!
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He co-wrote 186 dissertations with his pupils. The Hunt Institute has digitized them bit.ly/3cWpSHt. Here is Christian Hoppius’s on Anthropomorpha bit.ly/36nwX17 in print and in MS @LinneanSociety inc notes by Linnaeus bit.ly/3ebgMqi #CollectionsUnited
ALT Page from MS of Christian Emmanuel Hoppius’s Anthropomorpha (1760)
ALT Engraving from Christian Emmanuel Hoppius’s Anthropomorpha (1760)
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Linnaeus' son (also Carl!) is often overlooked. He helped Banks & Solander sort the Endeavour voyage specimens in 1781-2. Solander's paper slips @NHM_Library (L.) and Linn fil's are among the first index cards, on the same paper & in exactly the same format. #collectionsunited
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#collectionsunited highlights the networks & exchange of specimens and info that increased botanical knowledge. @TheBotanics Roupell's ill of Spigelia marylandica (L.) spurred J. Hope to send a spec to Linnaeus who had misidentified it. Linnaeus corrected the error in 1764 Sp. Pl
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Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, zoologist and the “father of modern taxonomy”, was born #otd in 1707. We hold nearly all his published works and a few surprises. Today we’re delving into our collections and also the treasures of our #LinnaeusLink partners for #CollectionsUnited
ALT Portrait of Linnaeus in Lapland clothing from the British Museum’s catalogue of Linnaean books
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Happy Birthday Carl Linnaeus! Our #LinnaeusLink partner @BL_European is spearheading a series of tweets today about the #collectionsunited held by LLUC partners so stay tuned! To explore the Linnaeus Link Union Catalogue go to linnaeuslink.org/
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The herbaria @LinneanSociety have been digitised and are openly available online for anyone to access and explore: linnean-online.org/linnaean_…
the importance of #opendata for #openresearch #biodiversity #digitalcollections
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Our conservator is enjoying cleaning and repairing volumes of our founder J.E. Smith's Opuscula collection (bound offprints): today she showed us (via video link!) this beautiful engraving of a thistle (genus Carlina) from B. Hacquet's 'Plantae Alpinae Carniolicae' (Vienna, 1782)
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The Linnean Society library may be closed, but there's plenty of material online to keep us occupied. Our Collections team have put together a list of open access resources for everyone in the biological sciences community. Do send us your suggestions! linnean.org/research-collect…
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#OnThisDay in 1827 the Council @OfficialZSL agreed that women could be admitted as #ZSLFellows 'with the same...privileges, as Gentlemen..' Below is an extract showing this momentous decision as recorded in the Minutes of the meeting of Council. #Archives #WomensHistory
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If you're planning to be part of our virtual Science in the City conference 6-7 April, please sign up: docs.google.com/document/d/1…. The idea is to let participants know who will be around to facilitate some networking and perhaps virtual coffee break conversations
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Every Thursday we will highlight a great talk from our past Evening Meetings 🥳 Today we have 'Murder Most Florid' by @fungi_flowers which explores how plants and other components of the environment can help crime scene investigators 🔎 #LearnAboutLinnSoc youtube.com/watch?v=vWsA7xBb…
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This #TaxonomistAppreciationDay we are celebrating Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy. This image is made out of digital specimens. The Digital Collections Programme will be working from home while the Museum is closed and we would love to know, what do you want to hear from us?
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Want to find out more about the Linnean Society? Take a look at our #LearnAboutLinnSoc hashtag to see short tours voiced by the one & only @Sir_Attenboroug and blogs by our staff 😍#MuseumFromHome #ScienceFromHome
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We've got some lovely items on display in the Library on Cinchona, for @Economicbotany's talk tomorrow night. Looking forward to it! And to the #Gin, of course. linnean.org/meetings-and-eve…
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Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) is known for establishing taxonomy, the science of classifying organisms. Take a look at these original pages of his work, featuring his handwritten annotations.
Discover more on JSTOR Global Plants, thanks to @LinneanSociety: bit.ly/36B1UO1
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#linnaeus hard at work preparing his specimens on this 1972 silver medal. See his specimens at the @LinneanSociety part of @BurlingtonHub
