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Modern biographies of Carolus Linnaeus are found in Tore Frängsmyr (ed.), Linnaeus, the Man and His Work, rev. ed. (1994); Staffan Müller-Wille, Botanik und weltweiter Handel (1999); Lisbet Koerner, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (1999); and Patricia Fara, Sex, Botany and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (2003).

The most comprehensive biography of Carolus Linnaeus is found in Theodor Magnus Fries, Linnaeus, ed. and trans. by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (2011, originally published in Swedish, 2 vol. in 11 parts, 1903). An extensive bibliography of Linnaeus’s collected works is provided in B.H. Soulsby, A Catalogue of the Works of Linnaeus...Preserved in the Libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kensington), 2nd. ed. (1933). Other recommended studies include Wilfred Blunt, The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus (1971); and James L. Larson, Reason and Experience: The Representation of Natural Order in the Work of Carl von Linné (1971).

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