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    Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was...
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  • Estonian sledge hockey player Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), Finnish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist Volli Kalm (1953–2017), Estonian geologist...
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  • major general Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), Finnish explorer and naturalist Pehr Henrik Ling (1776–1839), Swedish physical education teacher Pehr Löfling (1729–1756)...
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    Tärnström, Linnaeus allowed only unmarried men to become his apostles. Pehr Kalm (1715–1779) was born in Sweden to Finnish parents and became a student...
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    Akademien I Åbo, Finnish: Kuninkaallinen Turun Akatemia) was located. Pehr Kalm, a pupil of Carl von Linné, founded the garden in 1757. In the garden...
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    Swedish immigrant, arrived on the Kalmar Nyckel. Swedish natural historian Pehr Kalm, who wrote Travels in North America, 1747–51, took notes of his interview...
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    Jean François Gaultier of Quebec, an honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748 and taken up by Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum. These...
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  • visiting Swedish scientist Pehr Kalm, from whose writings virtually all information about the stone is taken. According to Kalm, Vérendrye's expedition found...
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  • one of the leading naturalists in Canada, supported Swedish botanist Pehr Kalm in his 1749 exploring voyage of Quebec. Jean-François Gaultier married...
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    and New Castle County retained its name. Swedish explorer and botanist Pehr Kalm visited the descendants of the early Swedish immigrants to New Sweden...
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    Swedish Lutheran Church, described in his journal an emergence of Brood X. Pehr Kalm, a Finnish naturalist visiting Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1749 on...
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  • January 12 – Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish explorer (died 1795) March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (died 1779) May 29 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton...
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  • Cohoes Falls in the 18th century AD by Pehr Kalm....
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    latifolia). Kalmia was named by Linnaeus to honour his friend the botanist Pehr Kalm, who collected it in eastern North America during the mid-18th century...
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    their expeditions, including Pehr Forsskål and Pehr Löfling. Two years after Tärnström's expedition, Finnish-born Pehr Kalm set out as the second apostle...
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    interested in exploration, but would not provide funds. According to Pehr Kalm, La Vérendrye was acting upon orders given by de Beauharnois to explore...
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  • – economist, Nobelist (1949–) Kimmo Innanen – astronomer (1937–2011) Pehr Kalm – botanist (1716–1779) Teuvo Kohonen – neurocomputing pioneer (1934–)...
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    America in 1624, but it was named after the Finnish explorer and botanist Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), who sent samples to Linnaeus. The Latin specific epithet...
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    spending time with the Neutral Nation. The Finland-Swedish naturalist Pehr Kalm explored the area in the early 18th century and is credited with the first...
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    shallon but rather salal or sallal. The genus Gaultheria was named by Pehr Kalm for his guide in Canada, fellow botanist Jean François Gaultier. In the...
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    along the Mohawk and Schoharie Creek. Swedish explorer and botanist, Pehr Kalm, visited the area along the river in the mid-18th century where he encountered...
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    Church, described in his journal an emergence of Magicicada's Brood X. Pehr Kalm, a Finnish naturalist visiting Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1749 on...
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    [1747]. Its type specimen, designated in 1991, was reportedly collected by Pehr Kalm near Quebec in 1749. The specific epithet quinquefolius means "five-leaved"...
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    Born in Sotkamo, Finland (then part of Sweden) and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest and Enlightenment...
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    (1794–1878), botanist AnnMari Jansson (1934–2007), systems ecologist Pehr Kalm (1716–1779), botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), botanist, "father of...
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    Forster in 1770, basing the name on the "bottle-nosed whales" seen by Pehr Kalm in his Travels into North America, and on Thomas Pennant's 1766 description...
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    visitor describes the character of French Canadian women From Quebec City, Pehr Kalm writes to Benjamin Franklin about impressive welcome given Marquis de...
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  • Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (died 1795) March 6 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish/Finnish botanist, naturalist and travel writer (died 1779) December...
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    greater detail within two manuscripts the brood's May 1749 emergence. Pehr Kalm, a Finnish naturalist visiting Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1749 on...
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  • crayfish and spiders. Scientists named this frog kalmi for Pehr Kalm, also called Peter Kalm, a Swedish traveler who wrote a book called Travels into North...
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