Carl Peter Thunberg

Daniel subsequently corresponded with Thunberg and also sent him animal skins, which he had bought with money the Swede supplied.

Carl Peter Thunberg, also known as Karl Peter von Thunberg, Carl Pehr Thunberg, or Carl Per Thunberg (11 November 1743 – 8 August 1828), was a Swedish naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. He has been called "the father of South African botany" and the "Japanese Linnaeus". Linnaeus, 1758