Travels into North America: Containing its Natural History, with the Civil, Ecclesiastical and Commercial State of the Country

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 eastern North America to gather specimens, especially from regions with a similar climate to Sweden. Because Kalm travelled though the a...