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Daniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector

On 26 August 1768 HMS Endeavour left Plymouth with Daniel Solander, Uppsala-trained pupil of Carl Linnaeus, as naturalist beside Joseph Banks, to collect plants and animals on a Pacific imperial voyage. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Labour-Market Tightness.

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On 26 August 1768 HMS Endeavour left Plymouth with Daniel Solander, Uppsala-trained pupil of Carl Linnaeus, as naturalist beside Joseph Banks, to collect plants and animals on a Pacific imperial voyage. Sailors, servants, and indigenous informants supplied the labour of gathering. Linnaeus stayed in Uppsala and still owned the intellectual programme of naming what arrived.

Context

The ‘apostles’ were a correspondence-and-student empire, not a formal colonial office. Banks paid; the Admiralty commanded; Linnaeus had taught the method. Sharing those names is required. Sharing is not a reason to drop the teacher. Later NHM cabinets are reception, not this sailing.

Shared responsibility is part of Daniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector. Naming Carl Linnaeus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1768-08-26 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Labour-extraction path of mid weight for a teacher of imperial collecting. High confidence Solander was Linnaeus’s pupil on Endeavour.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Carl Linnaeus

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He trained Solander. Banks, Cook, Admiralty, and unnamed sailors and indigenous people did the collecting labour. Complex, shared.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactDaniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector
    2. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 26 August 1768 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Natural History Museum — portalNatural History Museum, London · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Linnean Society — Who was Linnaeus?The Linnean Society of London · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Linnean Society at https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab) treats apostles such as Solander as Linnaeus’s extended collecting system. The Natural History Museum portal at https://www.nhm.ac.uk/ (opens in a new tab) independently holds the Banks and Endeavour natural-history lineage Solander fed.

(https://www.linnean.org/learning/who-was-linnaeus (opens in a new tab); The Linnean Society of London).

Established: Solander sailed in 1768 as a Linnaean-trained collector on Endeavour. Not established: that Linnaeus ordered Cook’s track, or a unique specimen-count he personally unpacked. Contribution is recorded as He trained Solander. Banks, Cook, Admiralty, and unnamed sailors and indigenous people did the collecting labour. Complex, shared. The dated heading stays Daniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector on 1768-08-26, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Endeavour 1768 is not Species Plantarum 1753 and not a later ICZN article. Mixed effects of Daniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector are separate paths.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCarl Linnaeus
  2. contributed toFactDaniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector
  3. strengthensDriverLabour-Market Tightness

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Factrail. (2026). Daniel Solander sails on Cook’s Endeavour as a Linnaean collector. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-solander-endeavour-1768

https://factrail.ai/facts/linnaeus-solander-endeavour-1768

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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