Word: linnaeus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought to ask the best wordman he knew - Dr. Murray...
...Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus by Wilfrid Blunt. 256 pages. Viking. $14.95. The study of 18th century science can be an ennobling exercise. Outstanding men rose to survey and catalogue Nature's radiant data into logical systems. In Sweden, Carl Linne -Linnaeus to the world-collected, named and scientifically organized plants for the first time in history. Wilfrid Blunt's richly decorated biography admirably illustrates how Linnaeus' single mindedness and plodding devotion to stamens and pistils laid the foundation of modern botany...