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The Linnaean Herbarium (herbarium code: LINN) is a historically significant collection of over 13,000 dried plant specimens assembled by Swedish taxonomist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Housed at the Linnean Society of London since 1829, it forms the foundation of modern botanical nomenclature and serves as the primary reference for Linnaeus's ...
In it, he outlined his ideas for the hierarchical classification of the natural world, dividing it into the animal kingdom (regnum animale), the plant kingdom (regnum vegetabile), and the "mineral kingdom" (regnum lapideum). Linnaeus's Systema Naturae lists only about 10,000 species of organisms, of which about 6,000 are plants and 4,236 are ...
www.monicagagliano.com. Monica Gagliano (born 1976) [1] is an ecologist known for expanding the field of biological research into the intelligence of plants. Gagliano is a Research Associate Professor in the field of evolutionary ecology at Southern Cross University in Lismore, Australia, where she directs the Biological Intelligence lab. [2 ...
The acquaintance was a 24-year-old medical student, James Edward Smith, who bought the whole collection: 14,000 plants, 3,198 insects, 1,564 shells, about 3,000 letters and 1,600 books. Smith founded the Linnean Society of London five years later. [135] [136] The von Linné name ended with his son Carl, who never married. [7]
Fellow of the Linnean Society - serving as a member of their council as their Zoological Secretary and is their honorary surveyor of scientific instruments [9]; Fellow of the Institute of Biology - a former member of their council and chairman of their history network [9] (He also edited: Institute of Biology: The First Fifty Years which is devoted to the history of this Institute.
Sandra Diane Knapp OBE FLS FRS (born 1956) is an American-born botanist. She is a merit researcher of the Plants Division of the Natural History Museum, London and from 2018 was the president of the Linnean Society of London. While working at the Natural History Museum, London she has overseen the Flora Mesoamericana inventory of Central ...
Linnaean taxonomy. Linnaean taxonomy. Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts: The particular form of biological classification (taxonomy) set up by Carl Linnaeus, as set forth in his Systema Naturae (1735) and subsequent works. In the taxonomy of Linnaeus there are three kingdoms, divided into classes, and the classes divided ...
"On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" is the title of a journal article, comprising and resulting from the joint presentation of two scientific papers to the Linnean Society of London on 1 July 1858: On The Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type by Alfred Russel Wallace and an ...