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Daniel Solander
 
 EXPEDITION Sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour between 1768 and 1771. This was Cook's first circumnavigation of the earth. The trip, which included visits to South America, Australia, Oceania, Asia and Africa, resulted in numerous natural science and social science discoveries. In 1772, he and his friend Sir Joseph Banks made a botanical expedition to the Hebrides and Iceland. Solander lived in London from an early age and was an employee of the British Museum.
 BORN 1733, Piteå, Norrbotten, Sweden.
 EDUCATION Uppsala university, Sweden.
 TRAVEL DIARY The results of his expeditions were not published during his lifetime. He kept no diary during his expedition, but many others have described Solander and his work - both contemporary- and later writers. Edward Duyker and Per Tingbrand, Daniel Solander, collected correspondence 1753-1782, Melbourne 1995. Edward Duyker, Nature´s Argonaut, Daniel Solander 1733-1782, Melbourne 1998.
 DIED 1782 (Woking churchyard), London, England.

The map provides an overview of the places each Apostle described in, for example, his travel diary, books or letters. Modern geographical names are used. For further information see the collected works, The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure.


 
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CARL LINNAEUS
Carl Linnaeus Biography

THE APOSTLES
EUROPE, THE ARCTIC & ASIA
Anton Rolandsson Martin (1729-1785)
Johan Peter Falck (1732-1774)

EUROPE, NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA
Pehr Kalm (1716-1779)
Pehr Löfling (1729-1756)
Daniel Rolander (1725-1793)

EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH EAST & WEST AFRICA
Göran Rothman(1739-1778)
Fredrik Hasselquist (1722-1752)
Peter Forsskål (1732-1763)
Andreas Berlin (1746-1773)
Adam Afzelius (1750-1837)

SOUTHERN AFRICA, OCEANIA, ANTARCTICA & SOUTH AMERICA
Anders Sparrman (1748-1820)

EUROPE, SOUTHERN AFRICA, EAST-, SOUTHERN- & SOUTHEAST ASIA
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828)

EUROPE, SOUTHERN AFRICA, OCEANIA, SOUTH AMERICA, EAST-, SOUTHERN- & SOUTHEAST ASIA
Pehr Osbeck (1723-1805)
Olof Torén (1718-1753))
Carl Fredrik Adler (1720-1761)
Christopher Tärnström (1711-1746)
Daniel Solander (1733-1782)

CONTENTS & UPDATES
Contents The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. Volume ONE to EIGHT

Books released/Due for release 2008. The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure.

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ORDER: The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. Vol. 1 - 8

List of Subscribers to the Limited Edition of The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. Vol. 1 - 8.

The Ambassadors of the Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure project.

LINNAEUS PRESS INFORMATION
(PDF 1.9 Mb) Special Issue - Linnaeus Apostles - of The IK Messenger. World Wide (October 2007)

Sir David Attenborough on the Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure project. Richmond, United Kingdom. (8 October 2007)

Obituary Mr Per Wahlström - "True Advocate for Nature and Culture". (October 2007)

The New Scientist Magazine publishes a story about the Linnaeus apostle Daniel Rolander. (Aug 2007)

The Linnaeus Apostles - Global Science & Adventure. The very first volume straight from the printers at a ceremony at the Drottningholm Palace, Sweden. (May 2007)

The Return of the Linnaeus Apostles. At The Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom. (March 2007)

IK presents its publication of Linnaeus' Notebook from 1725 - the very first writings by Carl Linnaeus. World Wide (January 2007)

Carl Linnaeus in Skåne. IK Launch of the official Guidebook for the Tercentenary Celebrations. (September 2006)

Linnaeus Production With a Sense of Nordic Heritage (January 2006)

The Swedish Gazebo - Science & Adventure (January 2005)

Tärnström's Journal - Book launch in Gothenburg, Sweden IK's Linnaeus gathering with book launch in the presence of the Minister for Culture. Gothenburg, Sweden. (January 2005)

The Speaker Björn von Sydow talks about The Linnaeus Apostles (February 2004)

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