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— linnean society,
Located in a handsome neo-Classical building near the tourist hubbub of Piccadilly Circus in London, the basement holds an intimate little bank vault of leather-bound volumes and other items that belonged to the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, one of the most influential figures in science, and also one of the most colorful. The mahogany specimen drawers contain pinned-out dragonflies that last took wing 250 years ago, shells in small, handmade tin boxes, and a mullet pressed flat as a leaf on a sheet. In one drawer, the specimens are cradled like candies in heavy wrapping paper. A 30-inch-high double-folio volume, the author’s own copy of Systema Naturae from 1735, the first published statement of the Linnaean system, is here.
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