1. White, P. (1999) The purchase of knowledge: James Edward Smith and the Linnaean collections. Endeavour 23, pp. 126–129
2. On the history of the cabinets see Gage, A.T. and Stearn, W.T., eds (1988) A Bicentennary History of the Linnean Society of London, Academic Press of the Linnean Society (London, UK), p. 177; and Ramsbottom, J. (1938) President's address: Linnaeus and the Species Concept. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 150, pp. 192–219 (op. cit. p. 219)
3. McOuat, G.R. (1996) Species, rules and meaning: the politics of language and the ends of definitions in 19th century natural history. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 27, pp. 473–519
4. Daston, L. (2004) Type specimens and scientific memory. Critical Inquiry 31, pp. 153–182 (op. cit. p. 158)
5. See The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/linnaean-typification/, last accessed 20 January 2006). The Linnaeus Link Project, which aims to produce a union catalogue of Linnaean collections worldwide, must also be seen in this context (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/projects/linnaeus-link/index.html, last access 23 January 2006)