454 Field Columbian Museum — Botany, Vol. I. 



(1866), to Cuba, Jamaica, San Uomingo, Porto Rico, and repeat- 

 edly to St. Jolin and St. Croi.x. In 1H53 he became Swedish- 

 Norwegian Consul on St. Thomas, and finally, indeed. President 

 of the Colonial .\ssembly. In 1870 he returned to Denmark and 

 now lives in Copenhagen. He has published numerous contri- 

 butions on Molhisks. 

 Coll.: Bot. Museum, Copenhagen. 

 Lit.: Warm, in Botan. Tidsskr. Kopenh. XII (1880-81), p. 



188; Kia-'rsk. 1. c. XXIII (1900), p. 41; Cat. Sc. Pap. Ill, p. 747; 



VIII, p. 123; X, p. 462: Urb. Symb. I, p. 89. , 



1845-46. Olrstki), Anders Sanhoe (1816-72), born at Rudkoebing, 

 on the Island of Langeland (Denmark), June 21, 1816, son of a 

 merchant and bank director, began his studies in 1835 in Copen- 

 hagen, went to Denmark on a scientific expedition in 1842, 

 received his Master's degree in 1844, which was recognized as a 

 doctorate in 1854, and in 1845 began his expedition to the West 

 Indies and Central America. He visited St. Thomas, St. Croix 

 and many other islands of the Lesser Antilles, for example, 

 Grenada, and later Jamaica. In May, 1846, he repaired to Nic- 

 aragua and Costa Rica, from whence he returned to Copenhagen 

 in July, 1848. In 1851 he fitted himself for the position of Pri- 

 vatdocent in the University, became professor in i860, and died 

 in Copenhagen, September 3, 1872. The results of his American 

 travels included zoology, especially the lower marine animals, as 

 well as the plant world. 

 Coll.: Bot. Museum. Copenhagen; several families also in the 



Berlin and Kew Museums. 



Lit.: R. Brown in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. XI (1872-73), ex- 



Hemsl. Biol. IV, p. 130, 328; Kiaersk. in Bot. Tidsskr. XXIII (1900), 



p. 46-47; Pritz. Thes. H ed. , p. 236; Cat. Sc. Pap. IV, p. 696-697; 



VIII, p. 537; X, p. 949-950: Jacks. Guide, p. 23, 91, 102, 108, 142, 



146, 148, 165, 333, 338, 367: Warm, in Bot. Tidsskr. XII (1880-81), 



p. 162-171: Urb. Symb. I, p. 118, X19. 



18 18 — : Read, James, a North American ship officer, collected on 



Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Guadeloupe and Curacao, 



also in China. 



Coll.: Acad, of Nat. Sc. Philadelphia. The West Indian plants, 



whose origin as to the particular island does not seem to be always 



reliable, are also in Herb. Krug et Urban. 



1870-74. EcfJERS, Heinrich Franz Alexander, Baron von (1844), 

 son of police director Fredrich Baron von Eggers of Schleswig, 

 born January 4, 1844, attended the Gymnasium at Odense (Den- 

 mark), later studied under a tutor in Copenhagen, and in 1864, 

 as officer-aspirant, he entered the Danish army and engaged in 

 the war with the Germans. At the end of 1864 he took a furlough 

 and enrolled himself at Laibach in the Austro-Belgian Corps of 

 the Imperial Mexican volunteers. Arriving at Vera Cruz in 



