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 ...

The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are: The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to ...

Entomology students aren’t normally the ones under the microscope, but at the annual Linnaean Games, a national insect trivia competition, they are scrutinized as closely as their own six-legged ...

The major historical trends of biodiversity studies / Edward O. Wilson -- Linnaeus : a passion for order / David Quammen -- Daniel Rolander : the invisible naturalist / James Dobreff -- Taxonomy and ...

The relevance of taxonomy in our genomic era is greater than ever. Correct naming is crucial for developing new foods and medicines, and for understanding our changing environment. Amazingly, we do ...

FOUNCED ten years after the death of the A celebrated Linnæus, the Linnean Society of London has for the past hundred and fifty years carried on the work he initiated in systematic botany and zoology.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Graduate students from UC Riverside's Department of Entomology became the national champions of the Entomological Society of America's Linnaean Games at the society's annual ...

Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander published little in his lifetime. But through his botanic collections from his travels and a rigorous application of a revolutionary naming system, he laid important ...

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