Welcome to Linnean Online – a repository of digitised specimens, manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork held at the Linnean Society. Linnean Online includes all of the Society’s holdings of specimens (plants, insects, shells, and fish), manuscripts, and correspondence of Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778). The repository also includes other scientifically and historically important collections including the herbarium and correspondence of the Linnean Society’s Founder, Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828), the notebooks of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), the watercolour collection of Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829), and the manuscript collection of Alexander Anderson (1748-1811).
Note to users: Some of the images and metadata of our Linnaean Herbarium specimens are mixed up; this applies only to specimens whose species number ends with a zero (e.g. the image and metadata of LINN 132.10 may appear for LINN 132.1 and vice versa). We are working to fix this, but it will take some time. If you are unsure about a specimen record, please contact us. Thank you for your patience.
Please take a look at the Tips and Useful Information page for help navigating and understanding our Collections as well as useful links, including those to our other catalogues.
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