http://www.mnh.si.edu/ In Celebration of the Exhibition of the 1st Edition of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Scientists around the world are ...

The Library's Linnaean collection is due chiefly to the efforts of Basil H Soulsby (1864–1933) who took charge of the Museum's General Library in 1920. By the time he retired 10 years later, Soulsby ...

It is one of the triumphs of contemporary science that we have a means of naming and referring to all described organisms on Earth, as well as their fossil ancestors. It was Carl Linnaeus who realized ...

Taxonomy is the science that attempts to categorise the many millions of species on Earth. Find out how to define taxonomy, what taxonomists do and why classifying life is so important. The definition ...