[NatureNS] Linnaeus's 300th birthday Dec. 13/07 -- "Taxonomy's famous father"

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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.
>
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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.
>
>
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> 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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