Artedi

Artedi, PETER, a celebrated Swedish naturalist, was born in 1705. He studied for the church at Upsala, but soon betook himself to the natural sciences, having Linnaeus for fellow-student and friend. He became specially distinguished in ichthyology; and having gone to England in 1734, he there completed his great work, the Ichthyologia, the first which gave a truly scientific character to the study of fishes. He was also a distinguished botanist. He went to Leyden in 1735, and in the same year was drowned in a canal near Amsterdam.