|
We are always looking for new contributors. If you wish to submit material for consideration, please read our contributors' guidelines or our fiction guidelines. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If you love historical fiction, please JOIN the society today. You won't be sorry. 'I've just read Solander - it's a triumph!' - Bernard Cornwell. |
About the origins of "Solander" Daniel Solander was an eminent scientist and natural historian. He was born in Sweden, but came to live in England in 1760 and was employed at the British Museum. Solander is best known as a botanist/librarian who accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific in 1768. He was responsible for recording all new types of flora and fauna that were encountered, and for bringing samples back to England. The boxes that he used to keep his precious drawings in were shaped like books, and have become known as Solander boxes. It was because of Daniel Solander's enthusiasm for its unique vegetation specimens that Botany Bay in Australia received its name. Botany Bay would later become famous as the destination for convicts arriving from England. Daniel Solander is thought to be one of the inspirations for Patrick O'Brian's character Maturin, in his Aubrey/Maturin series of novels. The magazine Solander was not named after the man, but after Solander boxes, whose precious contents changed a generation's attitude to their subject. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
