Har den åran! Carl von Linnés 300-årsdag.

You've seen him before, but today is his special day, his 300th birthday. Happy birthday Carl, or Linnaeus, as we sort of know him. I did a piece on this wooden statue of the man in a very early post in January this year. The statue is in Djurgarden in Stockholm, where it is now approaching summer. I took the photograph in 2004, while I was living there.
Linnaeus taught at Uppsala University, a wonderful town not very far from Stockholm. Among those he taught was Daniel Solander, inventor of the specimen box, acolyte, friend of Sir Joseph Banks, James Cook, and who was here 70 years before my ancestors arrived in 1839-40.

Linneas invented modern taxonomy, the binomial system of Latin genus/species we use and have modified. Chelsea Flower show has a tribute. And there is a lot of energy going into this tercentennary, for some of Sweden's try this! Happy birthday Carl.