According to [this post][1] Carl Linnaeus named more than 13,000 species which is definitely quite impressive. If we consider a 50 years career it makes about 5 species per week! It would feel impressive that he could actually take time to find, observe and describe that many species.

Apparently Linnaeus named species from outside Europe such as the [Wild Turkey (*Meleagris gallopavo*, Linnaeus, 1758)][2]. This surprised me a little bit as travelling accross the atlantic was that common in the middle of the eighteenth century. Also, the wiki article on Carl Linneaus says:

> Boerhaave offered him a journey to South Africa and America, but Linnaeus declined, stating he would not stand the heat.

It made me realize that there are actually many non European species that have been described by Linnaeus such as the [Llama (Lama glama, Linnaeus, 1758)][3].

I heard of Linnaeus trip to Lapland and I always pictured Linnaeus as a field naturalist but now I am wondering

- Where did he get his specimens from? Did he have an army of graduate students exploring the world for him?
- What fraction of the species he named did he really see in the wild?
- What fraction of the species he named did he really see alive? (has he ever seen a Llama and a Narwhal?
- Did he name species based on other people description but without ever seeing one dead or alive?



  [1]: https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/8183/how-many-species-did-carl-linnaeus-classify
  [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_turkey
  [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama