The 300th Anniversary of the birth of Sweden’s most famous and greatest Scientist and Botanist, Carl Linnaeus, will be celebrated on Tuesday 27th November 2007 in Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 at 3pm.  Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Paddy Bourke and His Excellency, Claes Ljungdahl, Ambassador to Sweden, will plant Lime trees in honour of Linnaeus’s Scientific achievements.

“I am delighted to have this opportunity to acknowledge the impact Carl Linnaeus made in the area of the Sciences.  His hunger for knowledge, and his dedication to the study of Botany in particular, still influence the study of Science today.  The beautiful Lime trees we are planting today are a fitting symbol of the love and appreciation Carl Linnaeus had for nature throughout his life” said the Lord Mayor.

"Commemorating the great Swedish scientist and botanist Carl Linnaeus on his Tercentenary, I very much appreciate the generosity of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Paddy Bourke, and Dublin City Council for offering a site in Herbert Park for planting three Linden Trees. I hope that the trees will form a pleasant grove, a token of deep and sustained Irish-Swedish friendship, as well as an inspiration for an ecologically sound care for the nature in which we are living” said His Excellency, Claes Ljungdahl.

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Carl Linnaeus was born in 1707 in Sweden.  In 1727 he entered the University of Lund to study Medicine and later transferred to University of Uppsala.  It was here his love of plants flourished and grew into a great passion and interest. His ideas and works have influenced generations of biologists and still impact on the study of Science today.