Description
No information
- Taxonomic description
- Most groups worldwide; many types of names published by Linnaeus, Linnaeus filius, and J. E. Smith
- Geographic description
- Worldwide
- Temporal description
- No information
- Notes
- Updated Jan 2020. Some supervised loans only to BM. Visitors should make arrangements in advance by contacting the Librarian. The Society's ""British Herbarium"" (cf. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 194. 1860) is now owned by Natural History Museum (BM). The specimens in the Linnaean and J.E. Smith Herbariums have been digitized and the images are freely available on the Society's website (http://www.linnean.org). Microfiche editions of Linnaean and Smithian herbaria, with catalogs, are available from Inter Documentation Company AG, Poststrasse 14, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. Information on the types of Linnaean binomials can be obtained from the Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/linnaean-typification/) .
- Code
- LINN
- Number of specimens in collection
- 33,800
- Homepage
- Incorporated collections
- BEDPL.
Collection descriptors
Collection descriptors allows a collection to be described in more detail. This can be useful for collections that are not yet digitized or for collections that have specific characteristics that are not covered by the standard collection metadata.
Contacts
- Phone number
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State/Province
- England
- City/Town
- London
- Address
- Piccadilly
- Mailing address
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State/Province
- England
- City/Town
- London
- Address
- Burlington House
IC
Isabelle Charmantier
Head of Collections
Identifiers
- Code
- LINN
- Identifiers
- Identifier used by GBIFd2948b5d-7d59-4934-9bfb-f4ffdefc993f
Entry created: March 31, 2020
Last modified: August 06, 2025
Modified by: ih-sync