there also had to be auroras around the moon, Venus and Mercury. In 1766, Gunnerus was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Legacy The plant genus Gunnera was named after him, as well as the Gunnerus Library. See also :Category:Taxa named by Johan Ernst Gunnerus Notes References External links Publications by Gunnerus at the Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum Books by and about Gunnerus on WorldCat Biography at the Nordisk familjebok (p. 641) 1718 births 1773 deaths Norwegian phycologists Norwegian bryologists Pteridologists Botanists with author abbreviations Norwegian mycologists Bishops of Nidaros 18th-century Lutheran bishops 18th-century Norwegian botanists Norwegian ornithologists Norwegian botanical writers Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 18th-century Norwegian clergy Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 18th-century Norwegian scientists