To mark the 300th anniversary of Carl Linnaeus’ birth, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens are mounting a small exhibition of rare books drawn from its own remarkable ...

Each flash card is printed on the recto side only and has a small engraved illustration (some are lightly hand-colored) with two numbered questions The booklet, which has 38 pages, contains answers to ...

A new naming structure proposed by an American researcher moves beyond the Linnaeus system to one based on the genetic sequence of each individual organism. This creates a more robust, precise, and ...

For two years in the late 1970s I followed in the footsteps of Carl Linnaeus: I toiled in the field of taxonomy. The small corner of nature's jigsaw puzzle that I tackled was a group of marine sponges ...

Bob Holmes reports on proposals to replace our standard Linnaean system of classifying animals and plants with a new system called the PhyloCode (11 September, p 12). Advocates of this revolution – ...