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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)

Linnaeus, Carolus (lin-nē’us)—(Karl von Linne). A celebrated Swedish naturalist; born at Råshult in Småland, May 13, 1707; died at Upsala, Jan. 10, 1778. Among his writings are: ‘The System of Nature, or the Three Kingdoms of Nature Systematically Arranged’ (7 vols., 1735); ‘Foundations of Botany’ (1736); ‘Library of Botany’ (1736); ‘Genera of Plants’ (1737); ‘Classes of Plants’ (1738); ‘Philosophy of Botany’ (1751); ‘System of Plants’ (1779). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).