a second printing in 2006. In 1735, Carl Linnaeus visited Seba twice. Linnaeus found Seba's collection to be useful for the classification system which Linnaeus was developing, and Linnaeus used many of Seba's specimens as holotypes for original descriptions of species. Seba's inclusion of fantastic beasts such as the hydra influenced Linnaeus to include the "Paradoxa", species which may exist but which have not been found, in his Systema Naturae. Seba himself did not use Linnaeus' taxonomy, as it was published only a year before his death. However, he did organize his by physical similarities, leading to some similarities with Linnaeus' larger project. In 1752, several years after Seba's death, his second collection was auctioned in Amsterdam. Several objects were purchased by Russia's Academy of Sciences. Taxa named in honor of Seba Seba is commemorated in the scientific names of two species and one subspecies of snakes: Ninia sebae, Python sebae, and Oxyrhopus petola sebae. Gallery References Further reading . (Dutch) . (Dutch) . External links Holthuis, L.B. (1969) Albertus Seba's „Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri...." (1734–1765) and the „Planches de Seba" (1827–1831), Zoologische Mededelingen, Vol. 43, pp. 239–252 PDF Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri (All volumes scanned at the Biodiversity Heritage Library) Volume 1, Botanicus Volume 1, Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum Volume 2, Internet Archive Volume 3, Digital Library at Gdańsk University of Technology Volume 4, Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum; Gallica Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Catalogue entry for Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Cabinet of curiosities Web page of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek on the Thesaurus exhibition Review of thesauri by Claudia Stein, Medical History A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities scanned images from Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri. Botanicus. Sale and dispersal of the Seba collection 1665 births 1736 deaths People from East Frisia Dutch pharmacologists Dutch zoologists Fellows of the Royal Society