Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778. Carl von Linné correspondence to Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, 1774 October 16. bMs 19.10.1, Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Correspondence in Latin from Swedish botanist Carl von Linné (1707-1778) to Italian physician and naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723-1788), dated October 16, 1774. Also contains a message in French from a member of the Linnean Society in 1822.

Biographical Notes

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist. His work Systema Naturae, published in 1735, formalized the use of binomial nomenclature in naming species, also known as Linnaean taxonomy. He also was a professor of botany and medicine at his alma mater, Uppsala University, Sweden, in the 1730s and 1740s, and he was appointed rector of the school in 1750. Ennobled in 1757, he took the name Carl von Linné in 1761.