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Bob Stevens asked me to pass this on to you all. Thanks, Bob, from Jim et
al.
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From: Robert Stevens <rocks@xcountry.tv>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:37:47 -0400
To: jimwolford@eastlink.ca
Subject: Linnaeus's 300th
Jim,
It would be a shame to let the 300th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus's birth on
Thursday December the thirteenth go unrecorded on NatureNS. If you think it
is worthwhile, perhaps you could forward this link, or another like it, to
the list.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article303
0866.ece
Thanks in advance,
Bob Stevens
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From The Times Online
December 11, 2007
Taxonomy's famous father
Jane Owen
Celebrations for the 300th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus's birth will come to
a head on December 13 when the Linnean Society of London, which holds the
Swede's botanical and zoological collections and library, awards three
tercentenary medals for outstanding contributions to natural history.
Linnaeus's fame rests on his reputation as the father of modern plant and
animal classification but his work may not have been original.
This was the theme of an exhibition mounted this summer by the Swedish
bibliophile, UN consultant and representative for the East African Wildlife
Society Hugo Berch, who points to the amount that Linnaeus borrowed, or
took, from other writers and scientists.
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