Daniel Solander
1733–82
Swedish botanist. Pupil of Linnaeus. Employed cataloguing natural history specimens at the British Museum, 1763. Engaged by Joseph Banks to accompany him on Cook’s voyage in the Endeavour, 1768–71, and to Iceland, 1772. Keeper of the natural history department, British Museum, 1773. FRS 1764.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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