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He also published various papers in Archeologia. 
To the labours of J. Dryander (who succeeded Solander 
as Banks’s secretary and librarian, and who was on his death 
succeded by Robert Brown in 1810) is due the publication 
of the catalogue of Banks’s library. It is entitled “Cata- 
logus Bibliothece historico-naturalis Josephi Banks . . . 
auctore Jono Dryander,” 5 vols. 8vo, 1798-1800. In it 
are enumerated the works of upwards of 6000 authors, with 
analyses of their writings, arranged according to the subjects 
treated. This work has never been superseded. 
The name of Banks is commemorated botanically in the 
Australian genus Banksia, so named in his honour by the 
younger Linnzeus. 
DR. SOLANDER 
This sketch cannot be concluded without some notice of 
the career of Banks’s first librarian, and companion during 
Cook’s voyage, Daniel Carl Solander. He was the son of 
a country clergyman, and born in Norrland, Sweden, on the 
28th February 1736. He studied at the University of 
Upsala, took the degree of M.D., and became a pupil of 
Linneus, who recommended him to go to England. He 
left Upsala in 1759, being warmly commended by his 
botanical professor to the eminent naturalist John Ellis, 
F.R.S., but was detained in the south of Sweden by sickness 
for nearly a year, only reaching our shores in July 1760. 
In the following October he was strongly recommended by 
Peter Collinson, F.R.8., to the notice of the trustees of the 
British Museum, but no permanent employment was the 
result of this appeal. In the autumn of 1762 Linnzus pro- 
cured for him the offer of the botanical professorship at St. 
Petersburg, but after consultation with his English friends, 
Solander decided to decline the appointment, for “many 
reasons,” which are not given. The chief one seems to have 
been that at this time he was engaged in classifying and 
cataloguing in the British Museum, with prospect of advance- 
ment. A few months later he was appointed assistant in 
