{{Short description|Swedish botanist (1748–1810)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | known_for = | name = Jonas Carlsson Dryander | image = Jonas Dryander.jpeg | birth_date = {{Birth date|1748|3|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Gothenburg, Sweden | death_date = {{Death date and age|1810|10|19|1748|3|5|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | alma_mater = Lund University <br>Uppsala University | work_institution= Linnean Society of London | field = Botany }} '''Jonas Carlsson Dryander''' (5 March 1748 &ndash; 19 October 1810) was a Swedish botanist. <ref name=jcd>{{cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=17665|title= Jonas Carlsson Dryander |publisher = Svenskt biografiskt lexikon |author= Arvid Hj. Uggla|accessdate=December 1, 2018}}</ref>

==Biography== Dryander was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was the son of Carl Leonard Dryander and Brita Maria Montin. He was a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. He entered Lund University in 1778 and received his Master of Philosophy in 1778.<ref name="jcd"/>

He arrived in London on 10 July 1777. He became associated with Sir Joseph Banks and, following the death of Swedish naturalist Daniel Solander in 1782, was the librarian of the Royal Society and vice-president of the Linnean Society of London.<ref name="jcd"/>

Dryander's publications included ''Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks'' (1796-1800).

In 1784, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The genus ''Dryandra'' was named in his honour by his friend and fellow scientist Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828)<ref name=DryanderDNB>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Dryander, Jonas|volume= 16}}</ref> and Robert Brown named ''Grevillea dryandri'' in his honour.<ref name="Sharr">{{cite book |last1=Sharr |first1=Francis Aubi |last2=George |first2=Alex |title=Western Australian Plant Names and Their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, WA |isbn=9780958034180 |page=187 |edition=3rd}}</ref>

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==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} *[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2193313 portrait of Jonas Dryander] by William Daniell

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