Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus has been ongoing for over two centuries. Celebrated for his scientific work, Linnaeus was knighted and granted nobility...
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Linnaea (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
favourite of Carl Linnaeus, founder of the modern system of binomial nomenclature, after whom the genus was named. The perennial stems of Linnaea borealis...
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Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised...
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Marimo (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
ball, moss ball pet, or lake ball) is a rare growth form of Aegagropila linnaei (a species of filamentous green algae) in which the algae grow into large...
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about 10 km south-east of Uppsala. The manor house Hammarby was the former summer home of Carl Linnaeus and his family. Carl Linnaeus was a scientist and...
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Linnéa (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
given name of Swedish origin. It has two derivations, both of which are linked to the famous 18th-century Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus, who was ennobled...
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Solanum linnaeanum (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
Due to confusion about what species the original Solanum sodomeum of Carl Linnaeus referred to (most recently, it was identified as Solanum ferox), the...
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Linnaeus (1718-1797), Carl's brother William Linnæus Gardner (1770-1835), an officer in the Indian army Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus "The Heir of Linne"...
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The Arboretum at Gustavus Adolphus College (redirect from Linnaeus Arboretum)
legacy of Linnaeus' writings on human taxonomy and their subsequent influence on scientific racism beliefs. The push to remove the “Linnaeus” name from...
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Linné (crater) (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
was named after Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus. The mare around this feature is virtually devoid of other features of interest. The nearest named crater...
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Linnaemya (redirect from List of Linnaemya species)
Linnaemya is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae. Subgenus Homoeonychia Brauer & von Berganstamm, 1889 Linnaemya amicorum Draber-Monko & Kolomiets...
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Linnaeite (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
was discovered in 1845 in Västmanland, Sweden, and was named to honor Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Linnaeite forms a series with polydymite, Ni+2Ni+32S4....
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Linnaean Garden (redirect from Linnaeus' Garden)
satellite gardens of the larger University of Uppsala Botanic Garden, the other being the Linnaeus family's former summer home Linnaeus's Hammarby. The garden...
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Expedition Linné (redirect from Expedition Linnaeus)
documentary film made for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus. The film was made by Swedish wildlife...
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Linnean Medal (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
of the medal was Charles Anderson Ferrier of Dundee, a Fellow of the Linnean Society from 1882. On the obverse of the medal is the head of Linnaeus in...
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Linnean Tercentenary Medal (category Commemoration of Carl Linnaeus)
2007 by the Linnean Society to commemorate the tercentenary of the birth of Carl Linnaeus. Recipients were in two categories: Silver Medal and Bronze...
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Awards received by Jane Goodall (category Lists of awards received by person)
60th Anniversary Medal of the UNESCO 2006: French Légion d'honneur 2007: Honorary doctorate degree in commemoration of Carl Linnaeus from Uppsala University...
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Cornelius van der Horst (category Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
awarded a gold medal by the Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1950 awarded in commemoration of Carl Linnaeus. Other species named for van der Horst include...
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Kraken (section Linnaeus in English)
not distinguish between squid and octopus. Linnaeus may have indirectly written about the kraken. Linnaeus wrote about the Microcosmus genus (an animal...
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Flora Lapponica (category Carl Linnaeus)
(Amsterdam, 1737) is an account of the plants of Lapland written by botanist, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1788) following his expedition...
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Erasmus Darwin (redirect from The Temple of Nature)
the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus from Latin into English. This took seven years. The result was two publications: A System of Vegetables between 1783...
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Myosotis (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
the related genus Myosotidium. The genus was originally described by Carl Linnaeus. The type species is Myosotis scorpioides. Myosotis species are annual...
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Canis (redirect from List of Canis species and subspecies)
comparatively short ears and tails. The genus Canis (Carl Linnaeus, 1758) was published in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae and included the dog-like carnivores:...
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Brunia (plant) (category Flora of the Cape Provinces)
Brunia is a genus of shrubs of the family Bruniaceae, native to the cape region of South Africa. The genus was described by Carl Linnaeus and published in...
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Akihito (redirect from Emperor Akihito of Japan)
1411568. PMID 1411568. His Majesty The Emperor of Japan (July 2007). "Linnaeus and taxonomy in Japan". Nature. 448 (7150): 139–140. Bibcode:2007Natur...
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Rosemary (category Flora of the Mediterranean Basin)
original and current genus names of the species were applied by the 18th-century naturalist and founding taxonomist Carl Linnaeus. Elizabeth Kent noted in her...
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Viola (plant) (redirect from Culture of violet)
receptors of the nose, thus preventing any further scent being detected from the flower until the nerves recover. First formally described by Carl Linnaeus in...
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Galanthus (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
and described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, with the single species, Galanthus nivalis, which is the type species. Consequently, Linnaeus is granted the botanical...
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article lists direct English translations of common Latin phrases. Some of the phrases are themselves translations of Greek phrases. Assertions, such as those...
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Corn crake (category Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus)
relative of the corn crake is the African crake, which has been given its own genus, Crecopsis. Corn crakes were first described by Carl Linnaeus in his...
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