Linnean collections

• Linnean manuscripts
• Linnaean correspondence
• Lecture notes
• The Swedish Linneaus Society's donation
• Linneana in the Waller Collection
• Linnean publications - printed works by or on Linnaeus
• Hammarby Collection - books and other materials from Linnaeus' Hammarby
• Portraits of Linnaeus
• Microfilmed materials - unique manuscripts held at Linnean Society of London
• Linnaeus Link - international collaboration between libraries

Most of the Linnean manuscripts are today at the Linnean Society of London, but of the material still remaining in Sweden, some have ended up at Uppsala University Library.

• Praeludia sponsaliorum plantarum, 1729
• Dissertatio botanica de planta Sceptro Carolino, 1731
• Methodus Avium Sveticarum, 1731
• Flora Kofsöensis, 1731 (not autograph by Linné)
• Flora Lapponiae, probably 1732
• Flora Dalekarlica, 1734
• Pluto Svecicus, 1734
• Autobiography, also known as Vita III, ca 1750-1777
• Vade-Mecum, not dated
• Nemesis Divina, not dated
• Genera Morborum, not dated
• Hortus Uplandicus, 1731 

From the Leufsta Collection:

• Catalogus plantarum rariorum Scaniae, 1728
• Hortus Uplandicus, 1730
• Adonis Uplandicus, 1731

Carl Linnaeus' correspondence, dispersed in archival collections all over the world, is described and often digitised through the project Linnaean Correspondence. You find it in the database Alvin:

• Read more about the project and its aim
• Browse the Linnaean Correspondence

Parts of this correspondence situated in Uppsala University Library:

• Letters to and from Linnaeus (shelfmark G 152a-i)
• Letters from Linnaeus to C.P. Thunberg (shelfmark G 300q fol.)
• Letters to, from and about Linnaeus, also testimonials etc. (shelfmark Waller Ms se-)

In the Manuscript collections there are lecture notes from lectures held by CarI Linnaeus. Some of these are registered in Alvin - platform for digital collections and digitised cultural heritage:

• Lectures notes from lectures held by Carl Linnaeus

The Swedish Linneaus Society made a donation to the University Library in 2021, consisting of the Society’s archive, the Förberg Library, and a small number of books and manuscripts related to Carl Linneaus or the Society itself. Most of these materials had already been deposited at the University Library for some time.

• Archive of the Swedish Linneaus Society
• Linnean manuscripts in the Swedish Linnaeus Society Archive
• Förberg Library 

In our Waller Collections there are unique digitised material from or about Carl Linnaeus, for example correspondence, notes and and certificates:

• Linnaeus and Linneana in the Waller Collection

All Linnaeus' publications are to be found in Uppsala University Library, from the first edition of his seminal work Systema naturae 1735 to Nemesis Divina, which was published posthumously. We also have all the doctoral theses that were written under Linnaeus' supervision at Uppsala University. These are found together with printed literature about or with connection to Linnaeus in our Linnean Collection. A few capsules with printed Swedish ephemera in this collection is found in Alvin.

• Linnean Collection in Libris
• Linnean Collection in Alvin

A collection from the Linnean Foundation at Hammarby that consists of works that belonged to Linnaeus' own library. These books formed part of the collection that was at one stage sold by Linnaeus' widow to The Linnean Society in London. Some of the books, mainly about medicine, were returned to Sweden at the end of the 19th century on the grounds that they did not fit in subject-wise. In the collection there are also books by or about Carl Linnaeus that have been donated or acquired to Linnaeus' summer residence Hammarby in the early 20th century.
From Linnaeus' Hammarby there are also some engraved plates and wall paper fragments that are now kept at Carolina Rediviva.

• The Hammarby Collection in Libris
• Engravings and wallpaper fragments from Linnaeus' Hammarby

In the database Alvin you find our portraits of Carl von Linné:

• Portraits of Carl von Linné in Uppsala University Library

Uppsala University Library holds a number of microfilms of unique Linnean manuscripts from Linnean Society of London. For more information and to request the materials, contact Ask the Library.