Original Linnaean Dissertations
Respondent: David Davidsson Pontin (1733–1809)
Title: Arboretum Svecicum, ...
Date of Defense: {30} June 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-30
Lidén Title: Arboretum svecicum.
Soulsby Title: Arb. Svec.
Drake Title: Arboretum Svecicum.
Note: Two copies have page 28 misnumbered as 23 and day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: An account of the growth and size of native trees of Sweden.
Respondent: Gabriel Elmgren (1730–1765)
Title: Plantarum Jamaicensium Pugillus, ...
Date of Defense: 28 November 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-31, [1]
Lidén Title: Plantarum jamaicensium pugillus.
Soulsby Title: Pl. Jam.
Drake Title: Plantarum Jamaicensium Pugillus.
Note: P. 5 unnumbered.
Abstract: An account of 130 of the more rare of the 1,200 or so species of Jamaican plants of which specimens were presented to Linnaeus by Patrick Browne. The specimens are now in the Linnaeus herbarium at the Linnean Society of London.
Respondent: Johan Schröder (1727–1764)
Title: Genera morborum, ...
Date of Defense: 5 December 1759
Paginations: [iii], [1], 5-32
Lidén Title: Genera morborum.
Soulsby Title: Gen. morb.
Drake Title: Genera Morborum.
Note: P. 6 unnumbered.
Abstract: This is Linnaeus' first published classification of human diseases, based substantially on Francois Boissier de Sauvages de la Croix's (1706-1767) Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes … (Amsterdam, 1763), a symptomatic classification of deseases.
Respondent: Christian Ludvig Ramström (1740–1782)
Title: Generatio Ambigena, ...
Date of Defense: 12 December 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-17, [1]
Lidén Title: Generatio ambigena.
Soulsby Title: Generat. ambig.
Drake Title: Generatio Ambigena.
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Abstract: An essay on sexual reproduction, with emphasis on that among animals. Study is made of the relative influence of each parent on resultant offspring, with the conclusion that external form and libido are derived largely from the male parent. Examples from both the animal and plant kingdoms are given in support of the contention.
Respondent: Carl Gustaf Sandmark (1738?–1769)
Title: Flora Jamaicensis, ...
Date of Defense: {22} December 1759
Paginations: [vi], [1], 8-27, [1]
Lidén Title: Flora jamaicensis.
Soulsby Title: Fl. Jam.
Drake Title: Flora Jamaicensis.
Note: Two copies have day supplied in manuscript; one copy lacks day.
Abstract: This work is based on specimens of some 1,200 species of Jamaican plants received by Linnaeus from Patrick Browne (1720-1790) and information on some 800 species collected by Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Linnaeus also used information in Browne's A civil and natural history of Jamaica (London, 1756) and in Sloane's A voyage to the islands Madeira... and Jamaica (London, 1707-1725).
Respondent: Johan Victor Siefvert (1738–1791)
Title: Aer habitabilis, ...
Date of Defense: 22 December 1759
Paginations: [ii], [1], 4-25, [1]
Lidén Title: Aer habitabilis.
Soulsby Title: Aer habit.
Drake Title: Aër Habitabilis.
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Abstract: A medical treatise on the effects of the earth's atmosphere on health, economy, and the manners of man.
Respondent: Bengt Berzelius (1739–1777)
Title: ... sistens Nomenclatorem Botanicum, ...
Date of Defense: {24} December 1759
Paginations: [iii], [1], 7-19, [1]
Lidén Title: Nomenclator botanicus.
Soulsby Title: Nom. bot.
Drake Title: Nomenclator Botanicus.
Note: One copy has day supplied in manuscript.
Abstract: A tabular account of vernacular names of plant genera, especially those of European gardens, in Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian, equated with the Linnaean Latin name of the respective genus. Many of the vernacular names were taken from Christian Mentzel's (1622-1701) Index nominum plantarum universalis multilinguis ... (Berolini, 1682).
Respondent: Jacob Lindh (173?–1778)
Title: ... de Pingvedine Animali, ...
Date of Defense: 24 December 1759
Paginations: [vi], [1], 8-32
Lidén Title: Pingvedo animalis.
Soulsby Title: Ping. anim.
Drake Title: Pingvedine Animali.
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Abstract: An essay on the natural history of swine (Sus scrofa L.), their economy and usefulness to man.
Respondent: Henric Christian Daniel Wilcke (1739–1788)
Title: ... de Politia naturae, ...
Date of Defense: 29 March 1760
Paginations: [ii], [1], 2-22
Lidén Title: Politia naturae.
Soulsby Title: Polit. nat.
Drake Title: Politia Naturae.
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Abstract: An essay on the balance that exists among the three natural kingdoms, their interdependence, and the proliferation of diversity of kinds within each. The account is patterned on the plan of the dissertation Oeconomia naturae.
Respondent: Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810)
Title: Theses medicae, ...
Date of Defense: 14 June 1760
Paginations: [i], [1], 3-4
Lidén Title: Theses medicae.
Soulsby Title: Th. med.
Drake Title: Theses Medicae.
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Abstract: An essay on the interrelationship between the anatomy and physiology of the plant, in which it is held that every higher plant is composed essentially of a medulla, the basis for which species have characters in common that unify them as a genus, and a cortex by which nutrition is supplied to the individual. Recognition is given to the presence in a genus of interspecific hybrids. Species are held to have in common certain characteristics of taste and odor. As Frans Stafleu (1921-1997) noted, "This dissertation contained the terms of Linnaeus's theory on the hierarchy of taxa" (Linnaeus and the Linnaeans, p. 145).
