Fieldwork in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales, here with a Mountain katydid Acripeza reticulate.
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A cross-border European, a prominent naturalist, and a globetrotter who became one of the first curators at the British Museum, these are some of the epithets that can be said about the Linnaeus’ apostle DANIEL SOLANDER. He was born during the dark winter period in the northernmost part of Sweden in 1733 and died in London in the spring of 1782. Although his persistent work around the world was never published by his own hand, his scientific heritage is still of great benefit and inspiration to this day!
An example of inspiration is the first in a series of articles in iMAGAZINE | Tell us Your Story, which in 2021 and 2022 will focus on Daniel Solander.
Learn about a fifth-generation Australian now living in Sweden, about his very special connection to the great Daniel Solander. Even if they were born 230 years and 15,000 kilometres apart, they have strangely shared similar passions and destinies. Solander, the Piteå-born naturalist and Eric Warrant, the Sydney-born neuroethologist. Both destined to travel to the opposite ends of the world to follow their passions, and each as curious about the natural world as the other.
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SOLANDER 250 – Bréf frá Íslandi
In 2022 the Embassy of Sweden in Reykjavik and its Icelandic partners will commemorate the 250th anniversary of a scientific expedition to Iceland by among others the Swedish botanist and Linnaeus’ Apostle Daniel Solander, the English naturalist Joseph Banks and the later Archbishop of Sweden, Uno von Troil. An influential book, Bréf frá Íslandi, was published by von Troil after the expedition in Swedish and later translated into Icelandic, English, French, Dutch and German.
 Geyser on Iceland, illustrated in Uno von Troil’s first edition of the travel description, ‘Bref rörande en resa till Island 1772’, published in 1777
The project and the celebration are inspired by Iceland at the time of the expedition in 1772. Together they continue a dialogue between Iceland and Sweden on history, biology, geology, anthropology and culture which has spanned over many centuries. The project deals with our common past, present and future. It relates to the Anthropocene.
The IK Foundation has been asked to participate in 2022-2023, among other things, on the possibility within the groundbreaking Bridge Builder Expeditions concept, to establish the autonomous micro Field Station | Naturae Observatio | Solander's Eye in Iceland for a period of 12 months.
Preparations are underway to make this a reality, which will be the first Field Station of the updated version (v.3) to be deployed in a series of planned stations.
More information will follow during the year, watch this space...
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