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Taxonomy I

New Scientist 

Google - Research database allows searching of the scholarly literature.

Carolus Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus
John Ray
John Ray

The Natural History Museum - a consortium of libraries, museums and institutes are creating an online archive of the original scientific works and correspondence of Linnaeus.

BIOSIS - in Zoology, over 400,000 taxonomic names are either new or have been changed in the past 25 years!

Milwaukee Public Museum - explaining Taxonomy through the recent exploits of a beetles specialist.

London Natural History Museum, A collaborative project aimed at standardizing taxonomic nomenclature including a searchable online databse.

An alphabetical glossary of relevant scientific terms.

The modern equivalent of Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae, an attempt to database all the world’s biodiversity.

Here’s a resource for learning how to pronounce biological Latin names and terms.

A lavishly illustrated early 19th century taxonomic, expeditionary publication by Johann Baptist von Spix.

Missouri Botanical Garden - Photo expedition of the family Passifloraceae.

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