 Jussieu did keep Linnaeus' binomial nomenclature, resulting in a work that was far-reaching in its impact; many of the present-day plant families are still attributed to Jussieu.Morton's 1981 "History of botanical science" counts 76 of Jussieu's families conserved in the ICBN, versus just 11 for Linnaeus, for instance.Writing of the natural system, Sydney Howard Vines remarked 

In 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.