British Museum (Natural History) 
Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD 
Telephone 01-589 6323 
General information 
Education Officer Frank H Brightman 
Lecturers Joyce Pope, John Stidworthy, Anne McCord 
Most of the tours and lectures are intended for a general audience, 
but they are not suitable for very young children. 
Lectures and Bias shows are held in the Lecture Hall and begin at 3pm. 
All lectures are illustrated with films or colour slides. 
Gallery tours begin at the Main Entrance at 3pm. 
Programmes may be subject to alteration. 
The Museum is open weekdays 10am— 6pm, Sundays 2.30pm— 6pm. 
It is near South Kensington Underground Station or may be reached by 
Buses 74, 14, 30, 45, 49 and 39A (Saturdays only). 
BH Hedley 
Director 
The picture of Linnaea borealis is part of our commemoration of the bicentenary of the 
death of Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist on whose work our present system of 
namimg plants and animals is founded. Although it is unusual for a scientist to call a 
secies after himself, Linnaeus, who gave the first scientific description of this little 
plant, which grows in Scandinavia and is sometimes found in northern Scotland, did 
so. He explained that he named the plant as he did because it is small, obscure and 
short lived, like himself. Such modesty appears to have been unusual in Linnaeus, who 
is reputed to have been inordinately vain and to have had his portrait painted more 
than any of his contemporaries, including the king of Sweden. 
British Museum (Natural History) 
Lectures, films and 
gallery tours 
May June July 1978 
