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botany.
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Statue of Linnceus, Stockholm.
his time. On his return to Sweden in 1738, he spent several years at
Stockholm as a medical practitioner, until he was called to the University of
Uppsala in 1711 as professor of botany and medicine, in which post he laboured
indefatigably as a scientist and teacher until his death in January 1778. The
extraordinarily important position which Linnaeus occupies in the sphere of
scientific research is due principally to his reform and pioneer work in
classifying and describing botanical species, but he also wrote works on ecology
and botanical geography which bear witness to the breadth of his views and
the acuteness of his perception, but which have not been properly appreciated
until our own time. He raised the description of animals and plants to a real art
by forming diagnoses which, by means of short terms which were nevertheless
sufficiently precise to render their meaning, aim at characterizing different
species, and he also introduced the binary nomenclature, i. e. the method of
naming animals and plants by a specific and a generic name. He developed the
purport of the idea of species in a manner which has to a great extent
remained in use even at the present time. By means of his sexual system, he was
enabled to give a very necessary survey of the species then known; he
developed the difference between artifical and natural systems and showed how to
arrive at a natural system, and he distinguished and named 67 natural families.
His principal systematic works are »Systema Naturae;* and »Species Plantarum»..
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