Linnaeus portrait About the Linnean herbarium
Linnean herbarium (S-LINN)

Department of Phanerogamic Botany
Swedish Museum of Natural History (S)

 

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Historical Botanical collections

Department of Phanerogamic Botany

Swedish Museum of Natural History


The Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm comprises some 4000 herbarium specimens, several of which are types formally designated by various experts. The specimens were once distributed by Linnaeus to his disciples and eventually they became part of the collections of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, subsequently the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Linnaeus' main collections are today housed at the The Linnean Society of London

So far, this material has only been available to visiting scientists, and as small black and white microfiche photographs. Images of a number of specimens from the Linnean herbarium in Stockholm are now presented on the museum web-server. It is our ambition that the presentation will eventually include images of all the sheets in this Linnean collection.

The project was initiated in 1997, and is since 1999 supported by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation. The work is performed by Louise Petrusson and Pia Östensson.


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Latest update: 7 November 2001
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