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greater or lesser extent, he produced the first part of his ' Handbok 

 in Skandinaviens Hafsal£;Hora ' (1S9U), and wrote the account 

 of certain groups for Eugler und Prantl, ' Die natiirlichen 

 PflanzeufamiUen.' 



He was selected as Extraordinary Professor in 1883, and soon 

 showed his powers as a teacher in higher education. With a 

 liveh' interest for the various branches of botany, he succeeded, 

 througli his rich flowing ideas and independent apprehension, 

 in directing his public teaching by original and singularly 

 successful courses for students. The many new sides of botany, 

 which after a long period of preponderating descriptive and 

 formal morphologic direction, began to be opened up in the last 

 decade of the nineteenth century, such as physiologic anatomy, 

 organography as morphology with permanent regard to vital 

 phenomena, the developmental history of the individual, plant 

 phylogeny, plant dispersal, the invasion of alien plants, types 

 of organised plants, as aquatics, xerophytes, hanes, etc., all were 

 investigated by Kjellman and utilised by him to the modernisation 

 of the study in Sweden. By means of a bold and independent 

 terminology, he imparted his botanic ideas and new points of 

 view, which seemed to him to promise success. At the same 

 time he was a critical and exacting teacher, and according to his 

 lights he modified botanic institutions, library, work-rooms, and 

 botanic gardens, and improved their resources. His professorial 

 career enabled him to issue a dozen or more of treatises or discourses 

 such as " Om nordeus varvaxter," speech at a promotion of 

 doctors at Uppsala in 1895, " De nordiska tradens arkitectonik," 

 " Skandinaviska fanerogamflorans utvecklingshistoriska element," 

 " Vaxtorgeni," " Svenska vasternas ofvervintring," etc. On Prof. 

 T. M. Fries retiring from the Chair of Botany in the autumn of 

 1900, Kjellman was appointed in his place. On his reaching the 

 age of 60, his past and existing pupils contributed to a "Festskrift " 

 under the title ' Botaniska studier tillagnade F. E. Kjellman den 

 4 November, 1906,' accompanied bj' a congratulatory address. 

 He was elected a Foreign Member of the Linnean Societv, 

 2nd May, 1901. 



At the beginning of 1905 he had a slight apoplectic attack, 

 which diminished his workhig powers, but he was well enough 

 to be placed upon the committee charged to carry out the details 

 of the Linnean celebration last year, though, as it happened, he 

 was not able to take part in that committee's labours : but in 

 April 1907, another and more serious stroke completely broke 

 down his vital powers, and he died at Uppsala on the 22nd April 

 last, when his countrymen were busied on the final preparations 

 fur the brilliant " Linnefest." 



The writer has to thank Prof. C. A. M. Lindman for a copy 

 of his sympathetic notice of his old professor in ' Tmer,' and 

 Dr. Aksel Andersson for a copy of the ' Inbjudningsskrift ' for 

 the public lecture on the 19tli February, 1900, from which 

 publications the foregoing account has been compiled. [B. D. J.] 



