The Library's Linnaean collection is due chiefly to the efforts of Basil H Soulsby (1864–1933) who took charge of the Museum's General Library in 1920. By the time he retired 10 years later, Soulsby ...

The first division of living things in the classification system is to put them into one of five kingdoms. The five kingdoms are: The binomial system is important because it allows scientists to ...

DURING the Great War, the herbarium formed by Linnaeus and now in the possession of the Linnean Society of London, was removed from the three wooden cases which had contained it since the time of ...