Classification Collection

Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist. Berthollet (1748-1822) helped Antoine Lavoisier in his research into gunpowder and in devising the nomenclature that underpins the modern system for naming

View of a classification yard at C & NW RRs Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
View of a classification yard at C & NW RRs [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad s] Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill

C & NW RR, a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], a general view of a classification yard at Proviso Yard, Chicago, Ill

Looking toward the Chicago and North Western railroad classification yard. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
Looking toward the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad classification yard. The trestle runs from the ice house to the yard

General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
General view of one of the classification yards of the C & NW RR [i.e. Chicago and North Western railroad], Chicago, Ill

General view of one of the Chicago and North Western railroad classification yards, Chicago, 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
General view of one of the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] railroad classification yards, Chicago, Ill

A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RRs Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. 1942. Creator: Jack Delano
A general view of a classification yard at C & NW RRs Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill

Freight cars in the Chicago and North Western Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. 1943. Creator: Jack Delano
Freight cars in the Chicago and Northwestern [i.e. North Western] Railroad classification yard(?), Chicago, Ill. General view of Proviso yard

Linne, (1707-1778), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Linne, (1707-1778), 1830. Sir Charles Linne (1707-1778) Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician known as the father of modern taxonomy

A. Jussieu, (1748-1836), 1830. Creator: Unknown
A. Jussieu, (1748-1836), 1830. Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) French botanist and Parisian professor, the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants based on extended

Studying the formation of clouds from his attic, c1918. The early theorist of evolution, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), suggested a way of categorising clouds

Linaeus in Lapland Dress, c1918. Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) made an expedition to Lapland, the northernmost region in Sweden, in 1732. From Story-Lives of Great Scientists, by F. J. Rowbotham

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, (1812). Artist: J Chapman
Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, (1812). Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) founded the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish naturalist, 1835. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) founded the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, 1732 (early 19th century). Artist: William Home Lizars
Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, 1732 (early 19th century). Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778), the founder of the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature, aged 25 in Lapland dress

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish naturalist. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) founded the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish scientist and naturalist, 1874. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778), the founder of the modern system of plant

Pre-binomial classification of species, 1644. Here two different species of the genus camel are named in Hebrew, Latin and Dutch, although only one species, the Bactrian is depicted

Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Artist: Spy
Edwin Ray Lankester, British zoologist, 1905. Lankester (1847-1929) established clear morphological distinctions in different orders of invertebrates, demonstrating that they had different origins

Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist and physician, 1807. Linnaeus (Carl von Linne) (1707-1778) was the founder of the modern system of plant and animal nomenclature

Mendeleyevs first Periodic Table of Elements, 1869. Artist: Dmitri Mendeleev
Mendeleyevs first Periodic Table of Elements. From his Principles of Chemistry, St Petersburg, 1869

Five types of the human race, late 19th century. Based on his analysis of human skulls, German physiologist and anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840)

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