DPE: Repository: Linnean Correspondence, Linnean Society of London

Linnean Correspondence, Linnean Society of London

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Descriptive Properties

Name: Linnean Correspondence
Institution: Linnean Society of London
Address:
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BF
URL: http://linnaeus.c18.net/
Country: The United Kingdom
Description:

The collection held by the Linnean Society contains over 4,000 letters from 600 different correspondents. The majority of the letters are written in Latin, the lingua franca of the scientific world at the time.The earliest letters date from the 1730s, when Linnaeus was still a relatively young man, and continue up to his death in 1778 and beyond, as it took time for news of his demise to reach more distant correspondents.English transcriptions and summaries have been provided of some letters. The digitisation has so far provided 16,500 images for reading online.

Languages:

English
French
Latin
Swedish

OAI-PMH Properties

OAI-PMH status known? No
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Technical Properties

Z39.50 Support? No
Has some full-texts? No
Open Access? Yes
Access Rights:
Available to all
Legal Mandate to Preserve? No
Ingest Policy:

Long Term Preservation Strategy:
no

Administrative Properties

Uploaded: 18 January 2008 by DRAI
Last Edited: 18 January 2008 by DRAI

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