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Link: linnaeus.c18.net/Letter/L2873
Carl Linnaeus to Antoine Gouan,
26 February 1761 n.s. L2873. Carl Linnaeus On 30 December 1760 Linnaeus had received Antoine Gouan’s Linnaeus sees that Gouan is busy working with the systematics of fish. Gouan had asked about some of Artedi’s fishes. However, Linnaeus cannot answer, since he does not have Lister’s work on fish at hand. However, Linnaeus knows for sure that Peter Artedi’s Linnaeus has not seen Balistes scolopax. He has often wondered why Artedi put Scolopax in the genus Balistes. He hopes that Gouan will define this fish. Linnaeus does not know where the rumour regarding an expedition to Spain originates. People from France, Italy and Spain have written to him about it. However, there has been no letter of invitation. He therefore concludes that it is all a mistake. Linnaeus has received Roche’s [Linnaeus means Bartolomo Giambattista Ronco a. original holograph (BL, Additional Ms 22935, 184). |