Daniel Carlsson Solander (February 19, 1733 – May 16, 1782) was a Swedish botanist. February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ...

Solander was born in Piteå, Sweden and was the son of a Lutheran rector. He studied under Linnaeus at Uppsala University and traveled to England in 1760 to promote Linnaeus' new system of classification. He was an assistant librarian at the British Museum from 1763, and elected to the Royal Society in the following year. Afterwards Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. PiteÃ¥ Municipality (or Pite in the local dialect) is a Municipality in southern Norrbotten County in northernmost Sweden, where the city PiteÃ¥ is seat with a population of 22,500. ... A painting of Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (   listen?), and who wrote under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ... Uppsala University (Swedish Uppsala universitet) is a public university in Uppsala, Sweden. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity... The main entrance to the British Museum The British Museum is one of the worlds largest and most important museums of ancient history. ... 1763 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as the Royal Society, is claimed to be the oldest learned society still in existence. ... The main entrance to the British Museum The British Museum is one of the worlds largest and most important museums of ancient history. ...

In 1768 he was employed by Joseph Banks to join him on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Endeavour. He helped make and describe an important collection of Australian plants while the Endeavour was beached at the site of present-day Cooktown for nearly 7 weeks, after being damaged on the Great Barrier Reef. 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks (February 13, 1743 - June 19, 1820) was the English naturalist and botanist on Cooks first great voyage (1768-1771) and some 75 species bear Banks name. ... British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. ... Endeavour replica in Cooktown harbour HM Bark Endeavour was originally a small merchant collier named Earl of Pembroke, built in Whitby, North Yorkshire. ... Cooktown is the northernmost town on the East coast of Australia, located at 15°28′ S 145°17′ E on Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. ... Satellite image of a part of the Great Barrier Reef. ...

On their return in 1771 he became Banks' secretary and librarian and lived in his house at Soho Square. In 1772 he accompanied Banks on his voyage to Iceland, the Faroes and the Orkney Islands. Between 1773 and 1782 he was Keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. 1771 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1772 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Official languages Faroese, Danish Capital Tórshavn Monarch Margrethe II Prime Minister Jóannes Eidesgaard Area  - Total  - % water World ranking: 189th 1,399 km² 0. ... The Orkney Islands are one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and form a traditional county and Lieutenancy area. ... 1773 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...

Solander invented the book-form box, the Solander box which continues to be used in libraries and archives, as the most suitable way of storing prints and drawings, herbarium materials and some manuscripts. In Botany, a herbarium is a collection of preserved plants or plant parts, mainly in a dried form. ...

The standard botanical author abbreviation Sol. is applied to plants he described. In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...

References

• Duyker, Edward. 1998. Nature's Argonaut: Daniel Solander 1733-1782: Naturalist and Voyager with Cook and Banks. Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84753-6