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"guide to Linnaean zoological literature." A year or so before his death, Heller had asked Alwyne 
Wheeler, formerly of the British Museum (Natural History), to assist him in finding a publisher for 
that monograph. Wheeler arranged for this to be done as a joint British Museum and Oxford 
University Press publication, with Wheeler serving as an editor and also contributing some 
introductory essays and the Linnaean background. For various reasons the project has been 
delayed, but Mr. Wheeler graciously supplied me with verifications of several items that I had been 
unable to see, but I subsequently got to see them for myself. Dr. Kraig Adler also supplied some 
verifications . From the several pages of Heller manuscript that I have seen, I am well aware that 
Heller's work is infinitely more extensive than what I am supplying and likely will provide a more 
accurate idea of which particular editions of publications Linnaeus actually used, but Heller has not 
supplied publisher names as a final touch to his determinations. I recommend that readers of this 
report turn to Heller's guide for the "final word" when it ultimately appears. In a symposium report, 
Heller (1980 Bibliotheca Zoologica Linneana. pp. 240-264 In G. Broberg [ed.] Linnaeus: 
Progress and Prospects in Linnaean Research. Almquist & Wiskell International, Stockholm and 
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh) said on p. 242 of his compilation of 
documentation of Linnaean cites "....the present version runs to about 400 somewhat messily 
typed pages, and that it contains bibliographical data with commentary on Linnaeus's citations for 
about 450 separately titled books, monographs, or dissertations....and I think I have run down 
every single one of Linnaeus's not always accurate references..." 
An intriguing comment concerning the printing of Species Plantarum perhaps applies to 
Systema Naturae. W.T. Stearn 1957, in the preface to the Ray Society's 1959 facsimile edition of 
Species Plantarum, observed that no two copies of the original issue appeared to be 
typographically identical , a situation that he attributed to poor workmanship by employees of 
Salvius, the printer, thus individual copies of the original had defects of different nature. In those 
days no automatic feed of paper to the press existed; as errors in typography were discovered, 
they were corrected, thus different errors were discovered and altered at different times. Some of 
the literature examined by me had variations on the title page that differ from listings in major library 
catalogs; this can probably be attributed to the copy by copy corrections that were made. I have 
listed the titles and author name spellings as actually seen by me, including the use of "v" that was 
often used for "u”, and have noted anglicized etc. alternatives as desirable to aid the user in 
finding such literature in a library catalog. 
My appreciation is extended to the staffs of the following libraries for assistance in seeing items 
in their rare book collections: Tulane University; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; The 
University of Oklahoma; Library of Congress; The Natural History Museum, London; McGill 
University; John Crerar Library of the University of Chicago; The University of Florida. I feel 
especially indebted to Ms. Gina Douglas of the Linnean Society library in London; she not only 
gave me access to actual items from Linnaeus' personal library, but also allowed me to view the 
entire Linnaeus library in its vault at the Linnean Society, certainly an exciting moment for a 
biologist. 
#Act. Stockholm See L. Act. Stockholm 
Aid. aquat. See Aldr. serp. 
Aid. quad. Misspelled in some places as Aldg. See Aldr. serp. 
Aldr. serp. Aldrovandus, Ulysses (Aldrovandi, Ulisse) (1599-1668). Opera omnia. Bononiae. 
Franciscum de Franciscus. 13 v. The Aid. aquat. refers to v. 6,1613. De piscibus libri v. et de cetis 
lib. vnus. loannes Cornelius Vtervenvs...Bononiiae. Bellagamban. In the edition examined, p. 
