THE FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 27 



Henrik Johannes Rink, who was born in Copenhagen the 26th 

 of Aug'ust, 1819, received his degree of Ph. D. in 1844, made a 

 journey around the world in 1845 — '47, one to northern Greenland 

 in 1848— '51, and another to southern Greenland in 1852— '68. 

 Dr. Eink was governor of the colonies at Julienhaab and Godt- 

 haab in 1853, became general inspector of South Greenland in 

 1858 — '68, and one of the three directors of the government ex- 

 plorations of Greenland in 1871 — '82. He died at Christiania in 

 1893. He published contributions as follows: 



Gronland, geographiek og statistisk beskrevet, 1852 — '57. [Natural history 

 contributions to this were made by J. Eeinhart, J. C. Schiodte, 0. A. L. Morch, C. 

 Luetken, and J. Lange (See below.).] 



Greenland, 1877. [The botanical account in this was by K. Brown (Campst.) 

 and J. Lange.] 



Salomon Thomas Nicolai Drejer was born at Eveldrup, Viborg, 

 Denmark, the 15th of February, 1813, became docent at the 

 university in 1839, and died at Copenhagen the 21st of April, 1842. 

 He was an acknowledged authority on sedges, especially thegenus 

 Carex. He described numerous new s]3ecies of this genus, of which 

 not a few are found in America. The most important work from 

 - his hand is 



Revisio critica Caricuiu borealitim in terris sub imperio Danico jacentibus in- 

 ventarum, 1841. 



In 1870 and 1871 two Swedish expeditions were made to 

 Greenland under Prof. Nordenskiold. The botanist of the first 

 expedition was S. Berggren; of the second, T. E. Fries. 



Sl^en Berggren was born at Hor, Sktlne, Sweden, the 12th of 

 August, 1837, received his Ph. D. degree in 1865, became docent 

 in 1866, extra ordinary professor at Upsala in 1881, and profes- 

 sor at Lund in 1898. He made a journey to Spitzbergen in 1868, 

 to Greenland in 1870, and to New Zealand in 1874— '75. The fol- 

 lowing contributions are from his hand: 



Alger frS,n Gronlands iulandsis, 1871. 



Forteckning otver karlvaxter och mossor frftn Gronlands-expeditionen 1870, 

 1871. 



Bidrag till kannedom om fanerogam-floran vid Disko-bugten och .■iuleitsivik- 

 fjorden pfi, Gronlands vastkust, 1872. 



Undersokning af mosafioran vid Disko-bukten etc., 1875. 



Theodor Magnus Fries, son of Elias Fries, was born at Femsjo, 

 SmSland, Sweden, the 28th ofOctober, 1832, received his Ph.D. 

 degree in 1857, became docent the same year, was professor at 



