Finnish Museum of Natural History


Linnaean specimens: Ilkka Kukkonen and Kalevi Viljamaa in 1973

Kukkonen, I. & Viljamaa, K. 1973: Linnaean specimens in the Botanical Museum of the University of Helsinki. - Ann. Bot. Fennici 10: 309-336.

Eighty-two specimens are listed that are believed to have once been part of the herbarium of Linné (Linnaeus) the elder or are annotated by him. The bulk of these specimens were brought to Turku/Åbo by Anders Dahl, either as part of his own collections or as part of the Alströmer herbarium, now in S. Most of the material contributed by Dahl was destroyed in the great fire of Turku in 1827, but these specimens were saved in one way or another. Some of them, e.g. Arctotis anthemoides, Centaurea orien talis, Gnaphalium arenarium, Lathyrus pisiformis , Salvia glutinosa, and Trichomanes chinensis, might be used as types of the Linnaean taxa. The set includes specimens from the following persons: E. Brander, P. Browne, N. L. Burman, T. Gerber, J. G. Gmelin, J. F. Gronovius (?), F. Hasselquist, M. Kähler, P. Kalm, S. P. Krascheninnikov, P. Osbeck, C. P. Thunberg, and C. H. Wänman. The specimens are also annotated by several other people. Brief biographical notes on all these persons are given.