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SUMMARY:&quot\;Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording
 &quot\; - Jenny Beckman (University of Uppsala\, Stockholm)
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CONTACT:David Allan Feller
DESCRIPTION:Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording\n\
 nWhen the Swedish Museum of Natural History was founded in 1819\, its dire
 ctors appealed to “the ancient love of science” of the Swedish people\
 , representing their country as the “native land of modern natural histo
 ry”. More than a century later\, plant geographer Eric Hultén claimed t
 hat love of botany was a “typically Nordic trait”\, with reference to 
 the “Linnaean heritage”. And as the tercentenary of Linnaeus’s birth
  draws near\, “Linnaean traditions” turn up all over the place.\n\nIn 
 a suspiciously elegant way\, the establishment of a science curriculum in 
 Swedish primary and secondary schools coincides with the first modern Linn
 aean celebrations in 1878. My aim in this paper is to look at school botan
 y and the importance of collecting in the curriculum\, beginning with hand
 books\, fieldguides and manuals developed for these purposes – which lat
 er develop into adult education and study circle materials used in modern 
 biological surveys. This tangible\, often compulsory botanical practice is
  a way of tracing\, and questioning\, supposedly Linnaean traditions.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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