Daniel Solander and the avenbok

This is not a type, but an early collection of avenbok (Carpinus betulus) from Skåne, the southernmost province in Sweden. It is annotaded in the hand of Daniel Solander (1733-1782), both on the front (recto) and the back (verso); of course also professor Johan Emanuel Wikström (1789-1856) has annotated the sheet…

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