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book labelled "Aves" only a few slips relating to tlie 

 Diomedeidse were found. Consequently the determination 

 of the drawings was a diffionlt matter, and it might have 

 been a worthless pursuit were it not that Latham, in the 

 ' General Synopsis of Birds/ described man)?- Petrels from 

 the collection and drawings of Sir Joseph Banks. Before 

 proceeding further, I propose to outline the career of Dr. 

 Solander, the details of which are drawn from the Journal 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, edited by Sir J. D. Hooker in 1896, 

 where there appears a biographical sketch of his life. I have 

 to thank ]Mr. W. L. Sclater for drawing my attention to this 

 interesting book. "When JNIr. Mathews wrote his account 

 of the southern Petrels in his ' Birds of Australia,' he was 

 unaware of this book, as it is not included in the General 

 Library of the British Museum (Natural History), but through 

 inadvertence has been allotted to the Botanical Department, 

 though the zoological items seem to much outnumber the 

 botanical ones. 



Daniel Carl Solander was born in Norrlaud, Sweden, on 

 February 28, 1736, and studied at Upsala, where he took his 

 degree of ]\I.D. and becaaie a pupil of Linne. I have always 

 identified him with the " D. Solandri " mentioned in the 

 introduction to the tenth Edition of Linne's ' Systema 

 Naturae,' vyhere he is recorded as being a disciple of Linne, 

 who had made a trip into " Lapp, Pitensem and Tornensem 

 ill 17 DO.'' If this be correct, Solander was only seventeen 

 when he made this journey. 



Linne advised him to go to England, and gave him an 

 introduction to Ellis. Solander arrived in England in 1760, 

 and though well recommended to the British Museum no 

 permanency was offered him. Consequently, in 1762, Linne 

 obtained the offer of a botanical professorship at St. Peters- 

 burg for him, but on the advice of his English friends this was 

 declined and almost immediately afterwards he was appointed 

 Assistant in the British JNIuseum, where apparently he had 

 been engaged in classifying and cataloguing since his arrival. 

 In 1764 he was elected a EelloAV of the Boyal Society. It 

 was not until 1767 that he met Banks, but a friendship was 



