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WOW. So much information in one post. It will take me a week to go through all of the references.
Hi Don,
Thanks for commenting. That’s why we’re retired, isn’t it? To sit at our computers for weeks at a time?
Fantastic! Thanks for putting this together!
Hi Susannah,
Thanks for your comment and for the kind words from your link.
Mary
So sorry I missed offering a contribution to your totally awesome Berry Go Round. ‘Just stumbled into it via Seeds Aside, who’s doing the next Circus of the Spineless.
Speaking of Linnaeus and how things got their names, you might enjoy this bit from one of my own posts of last year:
“[Linnaeus] named a noxious weed after a German botanist he disliked [Siegesbeckia orientalis, Johann Siegesbeck, who had called his work "loathesome harlotry"] and the entire toad family after a French rival — names we still use today,” writes Robert Lee Hotz re Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist who gave the world modern taxonomy, the science of classifying organisms — on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the great man’s birth. In celebration, “Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and his colleagues launched the new online Encyclopedia of Life with $12.5 million from the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.” Were Tiny (lurking, above left) a namer of species like Linnaeus, she would no doubt rename a certain noxious rodent after her brother, Baby (lounging, above right). Babycakesia chelseana, anyone?
http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2007/05/schumer_httpwww.html
Sissy,
Thanks for the fascinating information about Linnaeus and his naming penchants.
Mary