At 17:39 2004-02-17 -0700, Robin Leech wrote: >The name "Linnaei" is genitive, and when it moves to the nominative case, >it becomes "Linnaeus". Carolo Linnaeo is, iirc, dative: "to (or for) Carl Linnaeus". -- Curtis Clark http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/ Web Coordinator, Cal Poly Pomona +1 909 979 6371 Professor, Biological Sciences +1 909 869 4062