Architecture Notes

Event ID 772333

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/772333

NT27NW 36.01 24730 75529

For list of related sites, see NT27NW 36.00 Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden, General.

Designed by Robert Adam (1778) with a Latin dedication by John Hope.

Relocated to the "Chilean Area" in 1969.

The momument commemorates the famous Swedish botantist Carl Linnaeus, who layed the foundations for the scientific classication of living things.

Photographed for a survey of the Royal Botanic Gardens by the RCAHMS Threatened Buildings Survey as a result of restoration work on the Temperate House.

2007.