Editing Daniel Solander (section)

==Biography==
Solander was born in [[Piteå]], [[Norrbotten]], Sweden, to Rev. Carl Solander<ref name=adb/> a Lutheran principal, and Magdalena (née Bostadia).<ref name=adb/> Solander enrolled at [[Uppsala University]] in July 1750 and initially studied languages, the [[humanities]] and law. The professor of botany was the celebrated [[Carl Linnaeus]], who was soon impressed by young Solander's ability and accordingly persuaded his father to let him study [[natural history]]. Solander travelled to [[England]] in June 1760 to promote the new Linnean system of classification. In February 1763, he began [[librarian|cataloguing]] the natural history collections of the [[British Museum]], and was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] in June the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27solander,%20daniel%27%29|title=Fellow Details|website=The Royal Society|date=2019|access-date=23 January 2019|archive-date=8 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708073537/https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28%28text%29%3D%27solander,%20daniel%27%29|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1768, Solander gained leave of absence from the British Museum and with his assistant [[Herman Spöring]] accompanied [[Joseph Banks]] on [[James Cook]]'s first voyage to the [[Pacific Ocean]] aboard the ''[[HM Bark Endeavour|Endeavour]]''. They were the botanists who inspired the name ''Botanist Bay'' (which later became [[Botany Bay]]) for the first landing place of Cook's expedition in [[Australia]]. Solander helped make and describe an important collection of Australian plants while the ''Endeavour'' was beached at the site of present-day [[Cooktown, Queensland|Cooktown]] for nearly seven weeks, after being damaged on the [[Great Barrier Reef]]. These collections later formed the basis of [[Banks' Florilegium]].
{{Solander, Banks, Cook, Hawkesworth and Earl Sandwich by John Hamilton Mortimer|size=250px|align=left}}
Solander also wrote a manuscript describing all the species collected from [[New Zealand]] during the six months the [[First voyage of James Cook|1768 expedition]] spent there. It was called ''Primitiae Florae Novae Zelandiae'' ('beginnings of a New Zealand flora'),<ref>{{cite web|title=Primitiae Florae Novae Zelandiae [First Fruits of the Flora of New Zealand]|url=http://www.otago.ac.nz/library/exhibitions/botany/#one|website=Celebrating Botany (1924-2014)|publisher=University of Otago|access-date=10 July 2015}}</ref> and was to be illustrated with the plates prepared by Banks. It was never published, but it was available for study by anyone interested, first at Banks' London home, then at the Natural History section of the British Museum.<ref>{{cite web|title=Topic: Banks' Florilegium|url=http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/576|website=Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa|publisher=Museum of New Zealand|access-date=10 July 2015}}</ref>

Solander's return to Britain with Cook and Banks made him the first [[Swedes|Swede]] to circumnavigate the globe.

On their return in 1771, Solander resumed his duties at the British Museum but also collaborated with Banks on the Florilegium. In 1772, he accompanied Banks on his voyage to [[Iceland]], the [[Hebrides]] and the [[Orkney Islands]]. Between 1773 and 1782 he was Keeper of the Natural History Department of the British Museum. In 1773, he was elected a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]].
[[File:Daniel Solander Grave Brookwood 2016.jpg|thumb|160px|right|Solander's grave in [[Brookwood Cemetery]]]]
Solander died at Banks' home in Soho Square of a [[stroke]], aged 49, on 13 May 1782.  An autopsy was performed the next day, and revealed a [[brain hemorrhage]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-5rQMHKLi8C&pg=PA81|title=The Letters of Sir Joseph Banks: A Selection, 1768-1820|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=1860942040|editor-last=Chambers|editor-first=Neil|location=London|pages=81|year=2000}}</ref> He is buried in the Swedish Section at [[Brookwood Cemetery]].