Herman Diedrich Spöring Sr. (or ''Spoering'') (1701–1747) was a professor of medicine at the Royal Academy of Turku in Turku, Finland, and an amateur naturalist. One of his students was the Finnish scientist and priest Pehr Kalm. Spöring was one of the earliest scientists to propose, in 1747 shortly before his death, of the link between fish and tapeworms. His son Herman Diedrich Spöring Jr. (1733–1771), a Finnish explorer and

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

, was one of the scientific personnel who accompanied

James Cook James Cook (7 November 1728 Old Style date: 27 October – 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean an ...

on the 1768-71 HM Bark ''Endeavour'' expedition to the Pacific.

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1701 births 1747 deaths 18th-century Finnish physicians People from Turku Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{Finland-med-bio-stub