I am not sure that I follow Mr. Petit's logic. Is it suggested that the
librarians of a minor midwestern city are so well versed in science, and
particularly in the biographies of eminent zoologists, that they discarded this
book because it lacked any semblance of credulity, or did they discard it
because midwesterners in general had no interest this subject and the book had
not been checked out for decades?
I favor the latter, strongly, because I also have, from this same library, ten
bound volumes--of one year's publications each--of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, issues
and suppliments, from the years 1870 to 1919. I don't think that they were
discarded because the science in them was judged to be useless by astute
librarians but, rather, that the shelf space was needed for more potentially
active publications.
The book about zoologists, being a small and obviously synoptic tome, was not
expected to present a comprehensive treatment of the subject. I merely offered
the CONCH-L listers the additional information that it contained. There are
bound to be SOME culture-specfic assumptions, plain to most readers of the
early 19th century, which have not reached us here in the 21st century. If any
presentation of a quote on CONCH-L is to be followed with multitudinous caveats
and disclaimers, the nature of this listserv will be substantially altered.
Aloha, and good shelling.
Bob Dayle
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Quoting Richard Petit <[log in to unmask]>:
> Did it not occur to you that there might have been a reason the MacGillivray
> book was discarded? I will reiterate a few facts once more but this is my
> last message on the subject. Linnaeus was christened as Carl Linnaeus. His
> mother's name was Christina Brodersonia (her father's name having been
> Brodersonius). Pastor Brodersonius died the year after his first grandson
> was born. The person appointed as his successor died shortly after his
> succession to the office and at that time (1709) Nils Linnaeus was
> successful in obtaining the appointment as rector. The name Linné never
> appeared until Linnaeus was ennobled at which time he adopted the name "Carl
> von Linné."
>
> dick petit
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Dayle" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Linnaeus' roots
>
>
> > "Charles Linnaeus was born on 23d May 1707, at Rashult, in the province of
> > Smaland. His father, Nils, whose ancestors were peasants, was pastor of
> > the
> > village, and being the first learned man of his house, had, agreeably to a
> > custom prevalent in Sweden, changed his family-name with his profession,
> > and
> > borrowed that of Linne' from a large linden-tree, which stood in the
> > vicinity
> > of his native place, between Tomsboda and Linnhult. His mother, Christina
> > Broderson, was the daughter of his father's predecessor in office."
> >
> > The above is the first paragraph on Linnaeus from LIVES OF EMMINENT
> > ZOOLOGISTS
> > by W. MacGillivray, a tattered discard from an eastern Indiana library
> > which
> > happened to fall into my hands a few years ago. It is a second edition
> > dated
> > MDCCCXXXIV (1834), Edinburgh.
> >
> > This paragraph seems to indicate that when Charles Linnaeus was born, his
> > father's name was Nils Linne'. I have kept this book simply because it
> > comes
> > from a time much closer to that period of interest, and I hope that it
> > reports
> > the facts with less "time" distortion than later books.
> >
> > Add this tidbit to growing heap info on Linne'..
> >
> > Aloha,
> >
> > Bob Dayle
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------
> > Quoting Andy Rindsberg <[log in to unmask]>:
> >
> >> Hi Scott,
> >>
> >> Interesting to hear of the triple linden. "Lime" is another variant of
> >> the
> >> Germanic word that yielded "linden". The tree is more commonly called
> >> "basswood" in the United States. The citrus "lime", a word for a
> >> different
> >> tree altogether, derives from Arabic through Provençal and French and so
> >> the
> >> two "limes" are inconveniently homonymous. Source: Webster's Ninth New
> >> Collegiate Dictionary.
> >>
> >> The surname Ingemarsson would not have been inherited in Sweden before
> >> the
> >> 18th century. It literally meant "Ingemar's son". Surnames thus changed
> >> every generation.
> >>
> >> Sweden was one of the last European countries to require fixed surnames
> >> for
> >> official registry. Russia made the change even later, though some people
> >> already had surnames. In conservative Iceland, they use the old system
> >> even
> >> now.
> >>
> >> Andrew K. Rindsberg
> >> Geological Survey of Alabama
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> >> Scott Jordan
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:46 AM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Linnaeus' roots
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The family name Linnaeus was taken by Nils Ingemarsson in honor of a
> >> triple
> >> trunked linden tree that grew next to the family farm. Other relatives
> >> took
> >> this name as well. It has nothing to do with lime trees.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Scott Jordan
> >
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