Travels into North America
Travels into North America Search within full text Print publication year: 2011 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139056182 Travels into North America Your name * Who would you like to send this to * Optional message Book description Peter Kalm (1716–79) was a Finnish-Swedish botanist who travelled extensively to observe the natural world in Sweden, Finland, Russia and Ukraine, and became a professor of 'oeconomie' - the economic application of subjects such as mineralogy, botany, zoology and chemistry - at the university of Turku. Between 1747 and 1751 he set out on a journey through ...