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Index of Subjects Good point. I have not been able to access this site. Has anyone else experienced problems ? Yt, DW Jim Wolford wrote: >Bob Stevens asked me to pass this on to you all. Thanks, Bob, from Jim et >al. > >---------- >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 >--------------------------- > >>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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