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docent in Zoology at Upsala the same year, but emigrated to 
America. He is a prominent zoologist, has made severaljourneys 
to Mexico and Central America, and collected botanical as well as 
zoological specimens. He is a member of the California Academy, 
whose President he was in 1905. 
Explorations to the Cape Region of Baja, California, 1894—’95. 
Biological Studies of Figs, ete. , 1896. 
Herman Theodor Holm was born the 3rd of February, 1854, at 
Copenhagen. He was the naturalist of the Danish North Pole 
Expedition of 1881—82 and accompanied Warming to Greenland 
in 1884 and Rosenvinge in 1886. In 1888, he emigrated to 
America, and became assistant botanist of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, 1893—96. He is a specialist in anat- 
omy and morphology of flowering plants. He received his Ph. 
D. degree in 1902. He has published many papers on plant anat- 
omy. The following are some of those referring more especially 
to North American botany: : 
Contribution to the Flora of Greenland, 1896. 
Catalogue of Plants Collected by Messrs. Schubert, Stein, and White on the 
East Coast of Baffin’s Land and the West Coast of Greenland, 1900. 
Allies of Stellaria media, 1901. 
Biological Notes on Canadian Species of Viola. 
On Some Canadian Species of Gentians, 1901. 
On the genus Arctophila Rupr., 1902. 
Studies upon Cyperacese, I—X XIV, 1896—1905. 
John H. Sandberg was born the 24th of July 1848, at Broby, 
Skane, Sweden. He received his college education at Lund and 
also studied pharmacy in Sweden. He came to America in 1868 
and located at Minneapolis in 1887, He studied medicine in this 
country has been practicing at Jenkins and Minneapolis, Minne- 
sota. He is an enthusiastic collector and brought together a 
large herbarium of Minnesota plants, which some years ago was 
secured by Gustavus Adolphus College at St. Peter, Minnesota. 
In 1892 he became a field agent of the division of botany, United 
States Department of Agriculture, and collected in company with 
D.T. MacDougal and A. A. Heller, in Northern Idaho and adjacent, 
Washington and Montana, and the following year in company 
with John B. Leiberg in the same region. 
John B. Leiberg, was born the 7th of October, 1853 at Malmd, 
_ Skane, Sweden, where heeraduated from the Gymnaseum, arrived 
