Carl Linnaeus
1997Juvenile literatureNaturalistsBiographyLinne, carl von, 1707-1778Scientists, juvenile literature
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Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.
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Juvenile literatureNaturalistsBiographyLinne, carl von, 1707-1778Scientists, juvenile literatureSweden
First published 1997Characters & people
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Sweden
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Margaret Jean Anderson
24 December 1931
Margaret Jean Anderson was born in Gorebridge, Scotland, a small mining town where her father was the Presbyterian minister. She was raised in Lockerbie, Scotland, where her childhood was characterized by freedom to wander through fields and woods close to her family home. She and her brother and sister caught fish and tadpoles, picked wildflowers, created their own museum of insects and flora, and mapped the nearby marsh. She studied biology and genetics at Edinburgh University, then worked as a statistician. She met her husband at a biological research laboratory in Canada, married, and moved to the U.S., settling in Corvalis, Oregon. After having four children, she took up writing, f…
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