is the 292nd anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus, the
Swedish botanical
taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world's plants and animals.
And did the 12 - year - old Beuys, now in the Hitler Youth, join the Sternmarch to Nuremberg in 1933, and rescue the Systema Naturae by Linnaeus, the great
Swedish naturalist and
taxonomist, from the flames of the book - burning pyre?