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Nature 446, 268 (15 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446268a; Published online 14 March 2007
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Concept Plant taxonomy: The love of plants
Staffan Müller-Wille1
- Staffan Müller-Wille is at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PJ, UK.
Abstract
Carl Linnaeus's use of erotic language to describe plants ultimately helped him to recruit a global network of specimen collectors.
In August 1749, Pehr Kalm, a medical student from Finland, travelled through Quebec on behalf of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The members of the academy, among them the botanist Carl Linnaeus, had sent him there in the hope that he would find useful plants to boost the Swedish economy.
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