Carl Linnaeus ( 1707 - 1778 )

Birth: Sodra, Rashult, Smaland, Sweden (23 or 24 May 1707) Death: Uppsala, Sweden (10 January 1778) Profession: Physician, naturalist Research Field: Botany, zoology, geology, taxonomy, medicine Education: MD Career: Physician to the king of Sweden (by 1753); Professor of Physic and Botany, University of Uppsala (by 1753) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 3/05/1753 Visited the Royal Society in August 1736 at the invitation of Cromwel Mortimer, RS Secretary, to view the herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane then in The Repository in the Society's headquarters on Crane Court, London.