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began his researches on the marine fauna along the shores of 

 Bohuslan, the western coast of Sweden. For eleven years Loven 

 remained attached to the University of Lund, carrying out these and 

 similar researches to which we shall recur. In 1841 his reputation 

 was such that, though only thirty-two years old, he was elected 

 Keeper (Intendent) of the Department of Invertebrata (Insecta 

 excepted) at the Swedish State Museum, an appointment that carries 

 with it the title Professor to the Academy of Science, although no 

 teaching duties are connected with it. This post he retained till 

 September, 1892, when increasing infirmity forced him to retire with 

 a pension. At the jubilee of his appointment, in iSgi, in recognition 

 of his long and useful labours, the Academy caused a medal to be 

 struck bearing Loven's portrait and the words " Sveno Loven Musei 

 Zool. Regni Praefectus," and on the reverse the inscription " Socio 

 meritissimo ob officia insignia per decern lustra museo zool. regni 

 praestita Reg. Acad. Sc. Suec. MDCCCXCL" 



This mention of Loven's labours was no mere form. As a 

 member of the Council of the Academy and as inspector of its library, 

 as well as in his post of Intendent, he contributed actively during the 

 greater part of his life to the development of its institutions. 

 Encouraged by Berzelius, by whom his genius was early recognised, 

 in 1844 he started the publication of the Ofversigt, and edited its 

 earlier volumes. He drew up the plans for the enlargement of the 

 State Museum, and during the years 1 860-1 864 superintended their 

 execution. The work of building completed, he devoted several 

 years of intense labour to the arrangement of the specimens in his 

 department, which he made a model for other museums to copy. 

 In their general arrangement, in the artistic display of the objects, no 

 less than in ingenious details of technique, all invented by Loven, 

 these collections in the Riksmuseum still evoke the enthusiasm of 

 museum experts. Naturally, too, Loven laboured for the increase of 

 these collections with abundant zeal, not merely collecting himself, 

 but freely giving to the younger generation from his stores of learning 

 and experience, that they might bring him in exchange treasures to 

 enrich his beloved museum. One of these young pupils, now himself 

 a reverend and renowned professor of the Academy, gives me his 

 reminiscences of those days. " As a lecturer in zoology and geology, 

 Loven was unsurpassed in Sweden, and those who heard his lectures 

 in 1848-49 can ne\er forget the impressions they received. The 

 addresses, too, which he delivered at the anniversaries of the 

 Academy of Science were masterpieces of style. In the days of his 

 strength there was a great charm in his conversation when he spoke 

 of the incidents of his life or characterised the men of science he 

 had met." 



Another creation of Loven's, of great and increasing importance 

 to Swedish science, was the marine zoological station that he founded 

 at Kristineberg, on the coast of Bohusliin, the same place where his 



