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Authorised form of name	Solander; Daniel Charles (? 1733 - 1782)
Other forms of name	Daniel Carl
Other forms of name	Daniel Carlsson
Dates	? 1733 - 1782
Nationality	Swedish
Place of birth	Pitea, Sweden
Date of birth	19 February 1733 or 28 February 1736
Place of death	At Sir Joseph Bank's residence, Soho Square, London
Date of death	13 or 16 May 1782
Research field	Natural history
Activity	Career: Studied under Carl Linnaeus (FRS 1753); went to London (1760); Assistant Librarian, British Museum; introduced Linnaean system of classification to English botanists; scientific assistant to Sir Joseph Banks (FRS 1766) and went on James Cook's first voyage (1768); Secretary and Librarian to Sir Joseph Banks; went to Iceland with Banks (1772); Keeper, Department of Natural History, British Museum (1773)
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	07/06/1764
OtherInfo	A56853
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; AE Authority: First Altname from DSB, second from Ryden; dates of birth and death from DSB References: Averil M Lysaght, 'Joseph Banks at Skara Brae and Stennis, Orkney, 1772' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 221-234 William T Stearn, 'A Royal Society Appointment with Venus in 1769: the Voyage of Cook and Banks in the Endeavour in 1768-1771 and its Botanical Results' in NR 1969 vol 24 pp 64-90 John Thomas, 'Josiah Wedgwood's Portrait Medallions of Fellows of the Royal Society' in NR 1963 vol 18 pp 45-53, plate Ryden, Stig, The Banks Collection: an Episode in 18th-Century Anglo-Swedish Relations (Goteborg, 1963) L B Glyn, 'Israel Lyons: a short but starry career. The life of an eighteenth-century Jewish botanist and astronomer' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 275-305 Notes: DNB gives dates of birth and death as 28 February 1736 and 16 May 1782
Code	NA2944

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1764/15	Solander, Daniel Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
EC/1764/14	Solander, Daniel Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CB/1/5/196	Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden	15 May 1782
CB/1/5/195	Letter from C J Phipps, Bath to Charles Blagden	12 May 1782
CB/1/6/146	Letter from Daniel Solander, London to Charles Blagden	26 August 1780
CB/1/6/145	Letter from Daniel Solander, London to Charles Blagden	23 July 1780
IM/004974	Banks, Sir Joseph and Solander, Daniel	nd
L&P/6/134	Letter, 'On gorgonia' from John Ellis to Daniel Charles Solander	1775
IM/001297	Ellis, John and Solander, Daniel Charles	2000
CB/1/1/75	Letter from Sir Joseph Banks to Charles Blagden at Mrs Nelmes, St James Churchyard, Bristol	21 August 1773
NLB/35/743	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Douglas Freshfield, Wych Cross Place, Forest Row, Sussex	11 July 1907
L&P/4/290	Letter, 'Of the nature and formation of sponges' from John Ellis to Daniel Charles Solander	1765

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