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the university and director of the botanical garden in 1877 — "99. 

 He accompanied Xordenskiold to Spitzbergen in 18(58 and to 

 Greenland in 1871. Some of his works which bear directly on 

 North American botany are the following: 



Lichenes Arctoi Enropse GroenlaBdiaque hactenus cogniti, 1861. 



Gronland. dess natnr och inT&nare, 1>72. 



On the lichens collected dnring the English polar expeditions 1S75 — "76, 1879. 



The botanical collections of these expeditions have been 

 worked up by several other Swedish botanists. The principal of 

 these are: 



Jacob Georg Ags^rdh- See page 25. 



Frans Reinnotd Kjellmzn, See page 32. 



Carl Fredrik Otto Nordstedt was bom at Jonkoping. Sweden, the 

 20th of January, 1838. became conservator of the Botanical Mu- 

 seum at Lund in 1880, received the honorary degree of Ph. D. in 

 ] 881 and the title of professor in 1903. He has been for many 

 years the editor of the "Botaniska Xotiser". He has made exten- 

 sive collections, and is an acknowledged authority on fresh- water 

 algse. He has published: 



Desmideer samlade ai Sven Ber^ren nnder Xordenskjoldska expeditionen 

 tm Gronland, 1870. 188.5. 



Ueber einige Characeen ans Porto Bieo, 1888. 



In 1876 b^an a series of expeditionsto Greenland, undertaken 

 to a great extent by the Danish government. The results of these 

 expeditions have been printed in that excellent work which is 

 known under the title 



Meddelelser om Gronland. 



The principal collectors on these expeditions were: 



Andreas Nikolaus Komerap, born at Copenhagen the 7th of 

 February. 1857. became decent at the Ag-ricultural College in 

 1880, and died the 3rd of September, 1881. He was the botanist 

 of Steenstrup's expedition in 1876 and of Captain Jensens in 

 1878 — '79. His rich botanical coUections were determined by 

 Lange. He also contributed to Meddelelser om Gronland. The 

 most important of these articles are: 



Bemsrknitiger om Gronlands ahnindelige natnr. 



Om det organiske I.iv paa deo ostlige Xunatat. 



Knad Johan Vogelias Steenstrap was bom the 7th of September, 

 1842. at Mov, Aalborg, took his pharmaceutical examination in 

 1863, became assistant in the Mineralogical Museum in 1866, 



