**Code**: [LINN](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/herbarium-details/?irn=125162) **Organization**: Linnean Society of London **Location**: London, England, U.K. **Total number of specimens**: 33800 **Current status**: Active **Date founded**: 1730 **Taxonomic coverage**: Most groups worldwide; many types of names published by Linnaeus, Linnaeus filius, and J. E. Smith **Geographic coverage**: Worldwide **Incorporated herbaria**: BEDPL. **Important collectors**: C. Allioni, J. Amman, P. Arduino, P. Browne, J. Burman, A. Dahl, C. G. Dahlberg, J. G. Gmelin, F. Hasselquist, N. J. Jacquin, B. Jussieu, P. Kalm, J. G. König, C. Linnaeus filius, C. Linnaeus, P. Löfling, P. Magnol, P. Miller, J. C. Mutis, H.B. Oldenland, P. Osbeck, A. Royen, D. Royen, J. C. D. Schreber, G. A. Scopoli, J. F. Séguier, D. Solander, A. Sparrman, C. P. Thunberg, C. R. Tulbagh, J. Banks, J. E. Smith **Notes**: Updated Jan 2020. Some supervised loans only to BM. Visitors should make arrangements in advance by contacting the Librarian. The Society's "British Herbarium" (cf. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 4: 194. 1860) is now owned by Natural History Museum (BM). The specimens in the Linnaean and J.E. Smith Herbariums have been digitized and the images are freely available on the Society's website (http://www.linnean.org). Microfiche editions of Linnaean and Smithian herbaria, with catalogs, are available from Inter Documentation Company AG, Poststrasse 14, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. Information on the types of Linnaean binomials can be obtained from the Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/linnaean-typification/) . **Date modified in Index Herbariorum**: 2020-01-10 > [!cite] This page is automatically generated • Data on this page were obtained from [Index Herbariorum](https://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/) on 2023-08-23. • Meaning of acronyms in TL-2 is not always the same as in IH. Consult list of original [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]] if you suspect acronym mismatch.