linnean

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Linnaeus, the celebrated Swedish botanist.

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In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life. Ernst Mayr

A key event had already occurred in 1857 when Richard Owen presented (to the Linnean Society) his theory that man was marked off from all other mammals by possessing features of the brain peculiar to the genus Homo. Source: Internet

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 158: 147–171, 2008 suggesting that many significant discoveries remain to be made. Source: Internet

Awards and honors He was awarded the title of Excellency by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907 citation and the Linnean Society of London 's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1908. Source: Internet

Given that neither the relationships of the penguin subfamilies to each other nor the placement of the penguins in the avian phylogeny is presently resolved, this is confusing, so the established Linnean system is followed here. Source: Internet

Another important collection in this respect was that of her husband King Adolf Fredrik (1710–1771) (in the Linnean sources known as "Museum Adolphi Friderici" or "Mus. Source: Internet

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