News
Database redesign and development: Linnaean Dissertations
23 August 2024
The Institute is pleased to announce that two more related datasets have been migrated to our new, more advanced online system. The Original Linnaean Dissertations dataset describes the 186 dissertations, joint products of Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778) and his students, published between 1743 and 1776, and provides PDFs of the digitized dissertations. The Index to Scientific Names of Organisms Cited in the Linnaean Dissertations covers over 30,700 occurrences of more than 13,900 different formal names of plant and animal taxa that appear in those original dissertations.
Since the two datasets are interconnected, users can navigate from a dissertation to the list of organisms described in it, or vice versa. Please accept an invitation to explore these updated interfaces to yet another set of the Institute's many collections of data. As mentioned in our previous news item, we will continue to roll out new and improved databases implemented in the new system.
About the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, a research division of Carnegie Mellon University, specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora.
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