The seventh annual New Sweden History Conference
Carl Linnaeus, Pehr Kalm & the Early American Scientific Community commemorated the tercentenary of Linnaeus's birth and focused on the role of Pehr Kalm (Linnaeus's "apostle" in America) in the development of the early North American scientific community and in the religious and ethnic history of southern New Jersey during the mid-18th century. The conference took place Saturday, October 13, 2007 at Trinity Episcopal (Old Swedes') Church in Swedesboro, New Jersey.