Latin name in 2 parts, known as a binomial . The first part was the genus, followed by the species. Using this system, the tomato became a more manageable Solanum lycopersicum . He gave binomial names to animals 5 years later and, between 1753 and his death, he named thousands of plants and animals in this way. This binomial system was adopted by other scientists and became the standard way of naming organisms. The professor of botany 1n 1741 Linnaeus was appointed Professor of Practical Medicine at the University of Uppsala and promptly exchanged jobs with Professor Nils Rosn to become Professor of Botany, Dietetics and Material Medica in 1742. He was enormously popular and well-respected as a teacher and supervisor, became a member of numerous foreign scientific societies and continued to cultivate eminent sponsors. The Swedish Parliament wanted an inventory of all the natural resources of the country and therefore, by Order of Parliament, Linnaeus spent 3 summers in the 1740s travelling through Sweden. He published Flora Suecica and Fauna Suecica in 1745 and 1746. In 1747 Linnaeus was appointed court physician. Transforming botany Linnaeus' main focus remained his reform of botany. In 1751 he published Philosophia Botanica, which dealt with the theory of botany and the laws and rules the botanist must follow in order to describe and name plants correctly. Species Plantarum followed in 1753, describing some 6,000 plant species which, most significantly, introduced a new system of naming organisms, which he extended to animals in his