"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
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| Back in the 18th century Linnaeus ("The Father of Botany") introduced
| both the binomial naming scheme which is the root of the modern
| International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), and an artificial
| (i.e. not based on relationships) classification based on the numbers
of
| stamens and pistils. He also produced an outline of a natural (one
based
| on relationships, as far as he could deduce) classification

Which was and is quite incredible, being largely valid today.

I agree; it was some achievement.
It is hard to imagine doing it partly from scratch.
I stayed in a hotel in Uppsala overlooking his garden.

Des




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Nick Maclaren.