Daniel Solander

Daniel Carlsson Solander ( born February 19, 1733 in Piteå, Sweden, † May 13 1782 in London) was a Swedish botanist, who took part in the first voyage of James Cook ( 1768-1771 ). Its official botanical author abbreviation is " Sol. ".

Life and work

His parents were the headmaster Carl Solander and his wife Magdalena Bostadia Solander. Daniel Solander was a student with good grades and enrolled at 17 years at the University of Uppsala in order to study botany under the famous scientist Carl Linnaeus. 1759 Solander traveled to England and made a name for themselves.

Together with the botanist Joseph Banks, he participated in the first circumnavigation of James Cook ( 1768-1771 ). 1772 took the two botanists a trip to Iceland, the Hebrides and the Orkney Islands.

With Joseph Banks together he described thousands of new species of plants, animals and insects mainly from the South Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.

Honors

The plant genus Solandra Sw. from the nightshade family (Solanaceae ) and the Solandersturmvogel have been named after him, as well as discovered on March 11, 1770 Solanderinsel in front of the South Island of New Zealand. Georges Cuvier in 1832 called a kind of snake mackerel Australia Gempylus (now Rexea ) solandri.

Works

• Together with Joseph Banks: Illustration of the botany of Captain Cook's voyage round the world in HMS Endeavour in 1768-1771. 1900-1905 ( posthumously published ).
• The Natural History of Many Curious and Uncommon zoophytes, Collected by the late John Ellis. 1786 ( posthumously ).

Invention

He invented in London, Solander box