The Australian National University Library is delighted
to receive the gift of The Linnaeus Apostles.
During the 18th century, the Swedish naturalist Carl
Linnaeus (1707-1778) was to inspire 17 of his scholars to travel to distant
corners of the world to document local nature and culture. They travelled on
their own or with expeditions across land and sea - their travels covered every
continent between the years 1745 and 1799.They were referred to as the Linnaeus
Apostles (or disciples).
The publication is a major international series of eight
volumes - in all 11 books and over 5,500 pages - which has been in preparation
since the late 1990s under the overall title of The Linnaeus Apostles - Global
Science & Adventure. All the accounts of the apostles' journeys to every
continent have been published for the first time in English; those of the
apostles who left no travel journals are described through their correspondence
or other sources. In the introductory and concluding volumes world experts in
various subject fields will provide accounts of the 18th century, of Linnaeus,
of travelling and the hardships of field work, together with biographies and an
index covering approximately 5,500 indexed printed pages, resulting in around
150,000 specific search terms and a considerable number of cross references or
references to modern biological nomenclature.
Roxanne Missingham
University Librarian
Australian National Universtiy
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