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ous place in this exhi 

 The following addre 

 berg, Curator : 



len delivered by Dr. P. A. Ryd- 

 merican Botany.* 



Mr. Chat 

 I have 



, Ladies 

 asked t« 



md Gentlen 



and his relation to North American botany. That the selection 

 fell on me was not because I was the most able one to deliver 



because I was born in the same country as Linnaeus. In fact, 

 my grandfather came from the same province of Smaland and 



:n from a parish adjoining that of Stembrohult, in which my 



l century there lived in 

 earned Ingemar Svenson. 

 one daughter, the grand- 



illustnous countryman was I 



In the early part of the 



Jonsboda, Smaland, Sweden 



He had three children, two 





asby.h 



