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the university and director of the botanical garden in 1877—99. 
He accompanied Nordenskiéld to Spitzbergen in 1868 and to 
Greenland in 1871. Some of his works which bear directly on 
North American botany are the following: 
Lichenes Arctoi Europz Greenlandiseque hactenus cogniti, 1861. 
Grénland, dess natur och invAanare, 1572. 
On the lichens collected during the English polar expeditions 1875—76, 1879. 
The botanical collections of these expeditions have been 
worked up by several other Swedish botanists. The principal of 
these are: 
Jacob Georg Agardh. See page 25. 
Frans Reinnold Kjellman. See page 32. 
Carl Fredrik Otto Nordstedt was born at Jénképing, 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 
1881 and the title of professor in 1903. He has been for many 
years the editor of the ‘“‘Botaniska Notiser’’. He has made exten- 
sive collections, and is an acknowledged authority on fresh-water 
alge. He has published: te 
Desmideer samlade af Sven Berggren under Nordenskjéldska expeditionen 
till Gr6nland, 1870, 1885. 
Ueber einige Characeen aus Porto Rico, 1888. 
In 1876 began a series of expeditions to 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 Grénland. 
The principal collectors on these expeditions were: 
Andreas Nikolaus Kornerap, born at Copenhagen the 7th of 
February, 1857, became docent at the Agricultural College m 
1880, and died the 3rd of September, 1881. He was the botanist 
of Steenstrup’s expedition in 1876 and of Captain Jensen's in 
1878—79. His rich botanical collections were determined by 
Lange. He also contributed to Meddelelser om Grénland. The 
most important of these articles are: 
Bemeerkninger om Grénlands almindelige natur. 
Om det organiske Liv paa den dstlige Nunatak. 
Knad Johan Vogelias Steenstrap was born the 7th of September, 
1842, at Mov, Aalborg, took his pharmaceutical examination 
1863, became assistant in the Mineralogical Museum in 1866, 
