JONAS

See also:

• JONAS DRYANDER (1748-181o)

DRYANDER (1748-181o)  , Swedish botanist, was born in 1748 . By his uncle, Dr Lars Montin, to whom his education was entrusted, he was sent to the university of Gothenburg, whence he removed to Lund . After taking his degree there in 1776, he studied at Upsala under Linnaeus, and then became for a time tutor to a young Swedish nobleman . He next visited England, and, on the death of his friend Dr Daniel Charles Solander (1736-1782), succeeded him as librarian to Sir Joseph Banks . He was librarian to the Royal Society and also to the Linnean Society . Of the latter, in 1788, he was one of the founders, and, when it was incorporated by royal charter in 1802, he took a leading part in drawing up its laws and regulations . He was vice-president of the society till his death, which took place in London on the 19th of October 181o . Besides papers in the Transactions of the Linnean and other societies, Dryander published Dissertatio gradualis fungos regno vegetabili vindicans (Lund, 1776), and Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, Bart . (London, 1796-1800, 5 vols.) . He also edited the first and part of the second edition of W . Aiton's Hortus Kewensis and W . Roxburgh's Plants of the Coast of Coromandel .