Author: LINNAEUS, C. [MARTIN, R.] (Def.)
Title: Dissertatio Botanica,qua Plantae Martino -Burserianae explicantur, cum, consensu amplissimae facultat. medicae...Praeside, ... Carolo Linnaeo,... Ab Alumno Regio Rolando Martin, Petri fil. Uplando. In audit. car. Maj. ad diem XII. Decemb. MDCCXLV
Description: Upsaliae, 1745. 4to. Unbound. [n4, A-D4]. (VIII, (1), 2 - 31, I pp.). (Some browning throughout; contemp. ownerships sign in in on t.p.; verso last leaf soiled.). Original 1745 thesis 'w. a description of 240 species of the rarest plants in the Hortusd siccus of Joachim Burser [1603 - 1689], in 25 vols., presented by M. Coijet to the University of Upsala.'(Soulsby note): Sven-Erik Sandermann Olsen, Bibliographia Discipili Linnaei, (Copenhagen, 1997) pp. 266 - 270, item S 1417: 'Martin, Roland (1726 - 1788) Physician. ... Defended a dissertation pro exercitio under Linnaeus (1745) [here offered]... professor of anatomy and surgery in Stockholm (1756 - 1767)... died of severe fever at his son's home at Broby gård, near Grisslehamn, Uppland, 1788.': Stafleu - Cowan, vol. III Taxonomic Literature, item 4732 and see p. 87 for a note on the reprints of Linnaean dissertations in 'Amoenitas' [1749 - 1769, 7 vols.] in which they make an important point: 'For purposes of plant taxonomy and nomenclature [ as for any any medical or ornithological subject] it will be necessary to consult the original dissertations... for a discussion of the authorship of the Linnaean dissertations see Stearn 1957 (pp. 51 - 64) ... Krok ... gives a list of the L. dissertations which were certainly or probably written by the respondents themselves. Rickett (1955) and Stearn (1957) come to the following important conclusion: "ascription of a name to an authority, is, after all, a convention, its object being to clarify the application of the name."; and for convenience, as well as for historical reasons, the names first published in the Linnaean dissertations, in the original theses no less than in the amended Amoenitas academicae versions, SHOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO LINNAEUS AND TO HIM ALONE [my cap.]." In our [Stafleu and Cowan] treatment we follow Krok's attributions because in most cases he bases them on the appearance of the designation "auctor" on the t.p. or elsewhere in the publication, clearly pointing to the defendens. The great majority of the Linnaean dissertations must, as Stearn and Rickett state, be attributed to Linnaeus himself.': Sandbergs Boghandel cat. 12 (1978), section VI, Theses and Orations.: 'The academic theses which have Linnaeus' name as Praeses contain nothing but the results of his own researches and investigations. At that time professors at Upsala dictated most of the theses to their students and only rarely did a defendant write his thesis himself. ... the defendant should pay for the printing of the theses. In this way a professor, at least an industrious one like Linnaeus, saved a lot of money. The original editions of these theses were always printed in small editions and are very rare. Even the collection of Linnaeus dissertations in the British Museum lacks eight of them or possesses some of them only in photostat copies.': Lidén, Cat. Disputationum (publ. 1778), Section U, 309.398, item 006: Comp. Krok, Bibl. Botanica Suecica (1925), item 52 & pp. 496 - 497 (Entry for his father, but the note mentions this thesis).: Soulsby, Cat. of the works of Linnaeus (1933), specifically section XII [items 1332 - 2460a, the original separate editions) item 1417: Hunt Botanical Institute website: 'An account of what Linnaeus held to be the 240 rarest species of plants in the herbarium of Joachim Burser (1583 - - 1639), a collection of 25 volumes, presented to the University of Uppsala by M. Coijet.'

Keywords: medicine linnaeana hortus botany MD gradu Z23