The Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) used to describe his contribution to science as: God created, but Linnaeus organized (Blunt, 2004). This year marks the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth, which was celebrated all around the world on 23 May—particularly in his native Sweden—to honour him as one of the most important contributors to modern biology. Linnaeus' gift to science was taxonomy: a classification system for the natural world to standardize the naming of species and order them according to their characteristics and relationships with one another. Linnaeus introduced a simple binomial system, based on the combination of two Latin names denoting genus and species; similar to the way that a name and surname identify humans. Although there have been several modern alterations to Linnaeus' original system, the basis of Linnaean taxonomy has allowed biologists to group related species into genealogical trees, which represent the evolutionary lineage of modern organisms from common ancesto

Phylocode proposal info and interviews

Botanicus is a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library

Historical zoological e-books (included publications by Linnaeus)

By the Philological Museum at the University of Birmingham, with a lot of links to Linnaeus' e-books

Exhibition at the Hunt Institute gallery (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), 28 April - 31 July 2002

Linnaeus botanical garden at Uppsala University