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Linnaean Collections

Linnaeus's own herbarium, housed at the Linnean Society of London, is the single largest collection of the specimens seen and used by Linnaeus. There are a number of other collections which contain original material for the names he described. These include collections of specimens (e.g. those at H, MW, S, SBT, UPS) given away by Linnaeus to students and colleagues, but also other collections that he studied at some point but which never formed part of his own herbarium. The latter include the George Clifford, John Clayton and Paul Hermann herbaria (all at BM and all digitised and searchable on-line), as well as those of Joachim Burser (UPS) and Adriaan van Royen (L). Some species were known to Linnaeus only through the publications of other authors such as Hans Sloane, Charles Plumier, Johannes Burmann and many others.

• Herbarium Linnaeanum
  Digital images from the herbarium of Moscow State  University, available on CD-ROM.

• The Institut de France, Paris, holds the plant specimens that Linnaeus collected in Lapland.

• Linnean Herbarium (S-LINN) The Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm holds a collection of 4,000 plant specimens that were distributed by Linnaeus to a number of his disciples.  They contain a number of type speciments.  The Museum is in the process of digitising these collections.

• The Linnean Society of London
  The world's oldest natural history society and holders of Linnaeus's original library and collections. The Society is in the process of digitising its collections.

• The Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University
  An important source of type specimens for Linnaean plant names.

• The Natural History Museum in London holds several collections of plant specimens and drawings consulted by Linnaeus.

• Strandell Collection of Linnaeana
  The largest collection of published material by and about Linnaeus outside Sweden held at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Information.

• The University Libraries at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, hold the Mackenzie Linnaeana collection, formerly at the New York Horticultural Society, which consists of all the important editions of Linnaeus's writings, nearly 200 theses written by Linnaeus for his students at the University of Uppsala, and his doctoral dissertation.

Linnaeus

• Carl Linnaeus: botanical history
  Brief biography from the Swedish Museum of Natural History, also available in Swedish.

• Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
  A biography from the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley

• Linnaeus' Garden
  Information on the garden - a reconstruction of the Uppsala University Botanical Garden in the days of Linnaeus.

• Linné on line .  An extensive Swedish portal from the University of Uppsala to information on Linnaeus.

• Linnés Hammarby
  History and details of Linnaeus's country estate.
  

• Order from Chaos: Linnaeus disposes.  An online exhibition by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.