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Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
An age of discoveries: 250 years since Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage to the Pacific
Wed 8 May 2019
Cambridge University Library
Over the course of this voyage, Banks and Solander relied on a variety of different paper technologies to record and systematically classify the new species they discovered according to the system developed by Carl Linnaeus (1707–78), ascribing each species a new binomial name. These paper technologies were made up from a variety of annotated printed books, which included Banks’s and Solander’s interleaved copies of Species Plantatum and Systema Naturae, a Manuscript Slip Catalogue, a series of paper slips that could be ordered in a similar manner ton index cards and the labels they added to the specimens themselves, and several manuscript lists and journals.
These methods of managing information had been developed by Solander when he was employed to curate the natural history collections of the British Museum during the early 1760s, and by Banks, who had previously toured Wales and England in 1767–68, the journal for which is held by Cambridge University Library.
Cost: Free