A picture commonly believed to portray Kalm, although some modern-day historians have suggested it may be of Kalm's colleague Pehr Gadd.[1] Painted by Johan Georg Geitel, 1764.
Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.
In 1747, he was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to travel to the North American colonies in order to bring back seeds and plants that might be useful to agriculture. Among his many scientific accomplishments, Kalm can be credited with the first description of Niagara Falls written by a trained scientist.[2] In addition, he published the first scientific paper on the North American 17-year periodical cicada, Magicicada septendecim.
Kalm wrote an account of his travels that was translated into numerous European languages; a 20th-century translation remains in print in English as Peter Kalm's Travels in North America: The English Version of 1770, translated by Swedish-American scholar Adolph B. Benson.
^TIEDE 5/2003, Suomalaisten löytöretket 3: Professori Kalm pääsi amerikan lehtiin.
^"Peter Kalm writes to Benjamin Franklin in 1750" (Niagara Falls) Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
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spending time with the Neutral Nation. The Finnish-Swedish naturalist PehrKalm explored the area in the early 18th century and is credited with the first...
prefers rich moist soil. The fruit is made into both preserves and cider. PehrKalm, a disciple of 18-century botanist Carl Linnaeus, wrote of the fruit:...
Born in Sotkamo, Finland (then part of Sweden) and having studied under PehrKalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest and Enlightenment...
their expeditions, including Pehr Forsskål and Pehr Löfling. Two years after Tärnström's expedition, Finnish-born PehrKalm set out as the second apostle...
January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish explorer (died 1795) March 6 – PehrKalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (died 1779) May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton...
shallon but rather salal or sallal. The genus Gaultheria was named by PehrKalm for his guide in Canada, fellow botanist Jean François Gaultier. In the...
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