SCANDINAVIANS 
Who Have Contributed to the Knowledge of the Flora of North 
America. * 
When we this year celebrate the two hundredth anniversary 
of the birth of Linnzus, the first questions that suggest them- 
selves to us are: “(What did the immortal Swede achieve for bot- 
any and zoology, the two sciences he loved so well?’”’, and “Has 
the work of Linnzeus any direct bearing upon the botany and 
zoology of America?”’ 
The first of these questions has been answered so many times, 
and will be answered over and over again this spring at hundreds 
of places where the anniversary will be celebrated. I say hundreds, 
for there will scarcely be any college or university of any repute, 
Where natural history is taught, throughout the whole world, 
which will not have a commemorative celebration of some kind; 
and what would be more natural for a speaker of the day or an 
in memoriam writer to dwell upon than the life work of the man 
in whose memory the celebration is held. To exploit the achieve- 
ments of Linnzeus will therefore be left in the hands of many abler 
men than the present writer is. ; 
The second question the writer has been asked to answer in a 
Short address at the celebration to be held here in New York on 
the 23rd of May. Undoubtedly, it will be answered at more than 
One place in this country this spring. 
When the writer some time ago was asked by Professor J. A. 
_ Udden to prepare a “fest-skrift” for the Linné anniversary at 
Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, he hesitated very much 
Whether to accept this honoring invitation or not. He did not 
know if it would be possible for him in the short time, and with all 
the busy hours of a curator at an institution such as the New York 
_ Botanical Garden, to prepare a memoir creditable to such an oc- 
Feta eet sisters 
* Reprinted from the Angustana College Library Publications Number VI. 
