Jonas Carlsson Dryander (5 March 1748 – 19 October 1810) was a
Swedish
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botanist.
Biography
Dryander was born in
Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Leonard Dryander and Brita Maria Montin. He was a pupil of
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his Nobility#Ennoblement, ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalise ...
at
Uppsala University
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The university rose to significance during ...
. He entered
Lund University
, motto = Ad utrumque
, mottoeng = Prepared for both
, established =
, type = Public research university
, budget = SEK 9 billion [Master of Philosophy
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in 1778.
He arrived in
London
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on 10 July 1777. He became associated with Sir
Joseph Banks and, following the death of Swedish naturalist
Daniel Solander
Daniel Carlsson Solander or Daniel Charles Solander (19 February 1733 – 13 May 1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.
Solander was the first university-educated scientist to set foot on Australian soil.
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in 1782, was the
librarian
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of the
Royal Society
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and Vice-President of the
Linnean Society of London
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.
Dryander's publications included ''Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks'' (1796-1800).
In 1784, he was elected a foreign member of the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The genus ''
Dryandra
''Banksia'' ser. ''Dryandra'' is a series of 94 species of shrub to small tree in the plant genus ''Banksia''. It was considered a separate genus named ''Dryandra'' until early 2007, when it was merged into ''Banksia'' on the basis of extensiv ...
'' was named in his honour by his friend and fellow scientist
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828)
and
Robert Brown named ''
Grevillea dryandri'' in his honour.
References
External links
portrait of Jonas Dryanderby
William Daniell
William Daniell (1769–1837) was an English landscape and marine painter, and printmaker, notable for his work in aquatint. He travelled extensively in India in the company of his uncle Thomas Daniell, with whom he collaborated on one of th ...
1748 births
1810 deaths
People from Gothenburg
Uppsala University alumni
Lund University alumni
Swedish botanists
Swedish biologists
Age of Liberty people
18th-century Swedish scientists
19th-century Swedish scientists
Pteridologists
Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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