Watercolour illustration by Georg Ehret, of Carl Linnaeus's classification system for plants, from Systema Naturae (1736) The Library's Linnaean collection is due chiefly to the efforts of Basil H ...

Biodiversity crusaders Peter H. Raven and Edward O. Wilson received Linnaean Legacy Awards Nov. 6 for their extraordinary contributions to taxonomy and the exploration and classification of species.

Linnaeus was an avid collector and classifier of 'animals, vegetables and minerals'. He named and described his collections and the many specimens that were returned to Europe from exploration of ...

Linnaean taxonomy is the science of classification of organisms based on diverse character sets. DNA barcoding can supplement this, but cannot replace it.