![]() It celebrates the healthy, nomadic life of the Sámi people, weaving together local knowledge and Linnaeus' observations on the local plants and animals with myths and legends from the region. Linnaeus' most well known manuscript is his 1732 Lapland journal.Watch a video about Systema naturae and Linnaean classification. Published in 12 editions in Linnaeus' lifetime, it aimed to classify and name the whole of the world’s minerals, plants and animals, and grew from three tables (1735) to three volumes ( 10th edition, 1758). Linnaeus' most important publication is Systema naturae.They all inform and enhance the biological specimens. The rest of the Linnaean collections includes the books from Linnaeus' library (including copies of his own works, annotated and corrected in his hand), his manuscripts, and the letters that he received from correspondents all over the world. This represents everything that a butterfly should look like! It even represents the whole genus of butterflies (Papilionoidea). This female specimen of an Old World swallowtail ( Papilio Machaon) from Sweden is a type specimen. ![]() ![]() The Society holds the type specimen of the Monarch, as it was first officially named and described by Linnaeus. The remarkable annual migration of almost countless millions of Monarchs from the Great Lakes to a narrow belt of mountains in central-southern Mexico have inspired wonder and awe. The American Monarch ( Papilio plexippus) is perhaps the best known butterfly in the world. Listen to Curator of Entomology Suzanne Ryder (NHM) talk about Linnaeus' Hercules beetle. Beetles include the impressive Hercules beetle, Scarabaeus hercules.Many of them still bear the names that Linnaeus gave them: It also contains spiders and crustaceans (neither of which are insects!). The insects collection includes beetles, butterflies and Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants). 9,000 insect specimens, including some 3,200 Linnaean ones, of which many are important types. Crop plants, essential to world-wide agriculture and economy:.Siberian larkspur: Delphinium grandiflorum Listen to Curator of Botany Dr Mark Spencer talk about the Linnaean herbarium.īelow are examples of plants that were first named by Linnaeus and whose scientific names have not changed for the last 270 years: The Society’s Linnaean herbarium is particularly rare because it is an example of a personal herbarium of a famous scientist that has been kept in its original state. The herbarium includes plants from Asia, Europe and the Americas collected during a time of intense European exploration. More than 4,000 specimens are type specimens for Linnaean names. The Linnaean Herbarium contains over 14,000 specimens, many pre-dating Linnaeus’s seminal work, Species Plantarum (1753).
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