Amoenitates Academicae is the title of a multi-volume zoological and botanical publication (published during 1749–1790) consisting of the dissertations of the students of

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, ...

, written during 1743–1776. Seven out of ten volumes were published by Linnaeus himself, the last three were edited by Johann Christian von Schreber.

Editions

* vol. 1: 1st ed., Stockholm and Leipzig, 1749, 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1787 * vol. 2: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1751; 2nd ed., Stockholm, 1762; 3rd ed., 1787 * vol. 3: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1756; 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1787 * vol. 4: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1759; 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1788 * vol. 5: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1760; 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1788 * vol. 6: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1763; 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1789 * vol. 7: 1st ed., Stockholm, 1769; 2nd ed., Erlangen, 1789 * vol. 8: 1st ed., Erlangen, 1785 * vol. 9: 1st ed., Erlangen, 1785 * vol. 10: 1st ed., Erlangen, 1790

References

* Richard Pulteney: ''A general view of the writings of Linnaeus''. London, 2. Auflage, 1805, 350ff. * John L. Heller: ''Notes on the Titulature of Linnaean Dissertations''. In: ''Taxon'', 32.2, May 1983, 218–252 {{doi, 10.2307/1221974

External links

The Linnean Collections, The Linnean Society
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