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> [!example] See also [[Alströmer, Clas (1778 friherre, baron) (von)|first entry]] for this author
### Author
\* Alströmer, Clas (1736-1794), Swedish merchant and naturalist, student of Linnaeus 1750-1753, 1758-1759; commissioner to the College of Commerce, Uppsala 1762-1770, travelled in Europe 1760-1762, partner in the merchandising firm of Nicklaus Sahlgren 1770, invalid ca. 1778, "friherre" 1778.
**Abbreviated name**: *Alstr.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Alstr.*\]
#### Herbarium and types
see TL-2/1: 38. – I. Kukkonen (in lit. 9 Jan 1978) informs us that some of the material of Alströmer came to [[Collection TUR|TUR]] in the herbarium of Anders Dahl: "the small remains which we have today of this material is identical with the Linnaean specimens in [[Collection S|S]]." \[Stockholm\].
#### Bibliography and biography
AG 3: 427; Backer p. 19; Barnhart 1: 45; Bossert p. 9; Colmeiro 1: clx; Dawson p. 16; Dryander 5: 137 \[index\]; Hortus 3: 1187; IH 2: 33; KR p. 29 (1 publ; b. 9 Aug 1736, Alingsås; d. 5 Mar 1794, Gåsevadsholm); Laségue p. 351, 357; PR ed. 1: 172, 173; Rehder 2: 34; SO add. 2491; TL-2/1: 38-39.
#### Biofile
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- Baumann, H. et al., AHO Baden-Württemberg Mitteilungsblatt 21(3): 401-402. 1989 (on A's orchids).
- Blunt, W., The compleat naturalist 188, 189. 1971.
- Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 255.12. 1980.
- Coats, A.M., Plant hunters 38. 1969.
- Eriksson, Bot. hist. Sver. intill år 1800. 241, 266, 293-297. 1969.
- Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 27, 36. 1950.
- Fries, Th.M., Bref. Skrifv. Linné 1(2): 283, 296. 1908, 1(3): 13, 82. 1909, 1(5): 86, 281, 283. 1911, 1(6): 26, 216, 218. 1912.
- Fries, Th.M. and J.M. Hulth, Bref. Skrifv. Linné 1(7): 187. 1917.
- Haller, A., Bibl. bot. 2: 609. 1772.
- Hård av Segerstad, K.F., Medd. Värml. nat.-hist. För. 1: 13. 1928.
- Hulth, J.M., Bref. Skrifv. Linné 1(8): 116. 1922, 2(1): 35-38, 80-82. 1916.
- Hulth, J.M. and A.H. Uggla, Bref. Skrifv. Linné 2(2): 164, 169, 170, 173, 177, 182, 183. 1943.
- Jackson, B.D., Proc. Linn. Soc. 134 (suppl.): 11. 1922 (A. mat. in LINN).
- Lindmann, C.A.M., Ark. Bot. 7(3): 5-9. 1907.
- Löwegren, I., Naturaliekabinett Sverige 200, 336, 339, 342, 344. 1952.
- Nordenstam, B., Fauna Flora, Stockholm 73(3): 134-136. 1978 (portr.).
- Peterson, B., Sv. bot. Tidskr. 42: 444-456. 1948 (portr.).
- Rydén, S., The Banks collections Stockholm 116 \[index\]. 1913.
- Scheutz, N.J.W., Bot. Not. 1863: 66.
- Stafleu, F.A., Adanson 1: 129-130. 1963; Linnaeus and the Linnaeans 298. 1971.
- Utterström, G., Sv. män kvinn. 1: 75. 1955.
- Wittrock, V.B., Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 28-29. 1903, 3(3): 3. 1905 (portr.).
#### Handwriting
S. Savage, Cat. Linn. Herb. fasc. no. 1761.