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JONAS DRYANDER (1748-181o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONAS See also:DRYANDER (1748-181o)  , See also:Swedish botanist, was See also:born in 1748 . By his See also:uncle, Dr Lars Montin, to whom his See also:education was entrusted, he was sent to the university of See also:Gothenburg, whence he removed to See also:Lund . After taking his degree there in 1776, he studied at See also:Upsala under See also:Linnaeus, and then became for a See also:time See also:tutor to a See also:young Swedish nobleman . He next visited See also:England, and, on the See also:death of his friend Dr See also:Daniel See also:Charles Solander (1736-1782), succeeded him as librarian to See also:Sir See also:Joseph See also: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 See also:charter in 1802, he took a leading See also:part in See also:drawing up its See also:laws and regulations . He was See also:vice-See also:president of the society till his death, which took See also:place in See also:London on the 19th of See also:October 181o . Besides papers in the Transactions of the Linnean and other See also:societies, See also:Dryander published Dissertatio gradualis fungos regno vegetabili vindicans (Lund, 1776), and Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, See also:Bart . (London, 1796-1800, 5 vols.) . He also edited the first and part of the second edition of W . See also:Aiton's Hortus Kewensis and W . Roxburgh's See also:Plants of the See also:Coast of Coromandel .

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