Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 22v
Additional Source Text:
"Brought from the Island Otaheity by Dr. Solander & by him given to Dr. Franklin."
Notes:
Daniel Charles Solander (1733-1782) was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. In 1768 he accompanied Joseph Banks on James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific Ocean aboard the Endeavour. They were the botanists who inspired the name Botanist Bay (which later became Botany Bay) for the first landing place of Cook's expedition in Australia.
The donor, Richard Bache (1737-1811), was Benjamin Franklin's son-in-law.
