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BRANDER, GUSTAVUS (1720-1787)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 427 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRANDER, GUSTAVUS (1720-1787) ,
English
  naturalist, who came of a
Swedish
  family, was
born
  in London in 1720, and was brought up as a
merchant
 , in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the
Bank
  of
England
 . His leisure time was occupied in scientific pursuits, and at his country residence at Christchurch in
Hampshire
  he became interested in the fossils so abundant in the clays of Hordwell and
Barton
 . A set of these was presented by him to the British Museum, and they were described by D. C. Solander in the beautifully illustrated
work
  entitled Fossilia Hantoniensia collecta, et in Musaeo Britannico deposits a Gustavo Brander (London, 1766). Brander was elected F.R.S. in 1754, and he was also a trustee of the British Museum. He died on the 21st of January 1787.


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