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equal to those at Lund. Near the entrance of the garden is a 
brick building containing a lecture room, laboratory, and herba- 
rium. In passing through the hall a most decided and congenial 
aroma of seaweed was perceived. It appears that Professor 
Agardh keeps a woman pretty constantly employed in soaking out 
and mounting rough-dried specimens. During my visit, she was 
engaged on a lot of algz sent by Dr. Ferd. Müller of Australia, 
and, as I entered the room, she was fishing up a specimen of Pha- 
celocarpus Labillardieri. In this building are kept large specimens 
of Ecklonia, Macrocystis, Durvillea, etc., several feet long, 
mounted on very thick card-board. That is certainly the only 
way of getting any idea how such plants really look. 
Lund lies in the large plain of Sarnia, with mountains visible in 
the distance. This is decidedly the most fertile part of Sweden, 
and the grain crop is very large. I made an excursion with Dr. 
Berghen to a place called Vogelsang, made classic by the visits 
of Linnæus. The meadows and knolls were very beautiful with 
centaurez and orchids, and farther off one could see the grain 
fields brilliant with the usual amount of poppies, chrysanthemums, 
and bachelor’s buttons, the characteristic “ corn-weeds” of Europe. 
From Lund to Stockholm is a rather long journey, particularly 
if one has lately been travelling in Germany. The botanists of 
Stockholm were all away for the vacation. So, after visiting the 
museum and galleries, which, although good, are not remarkable, 
and enjoying for a day or two this picturesque and agreeable city 
and its surroundings, I went on to Upsala, in the slowest train I 
ever saw. Upsala is not: so beautifully situated, but is in most 
respects more interesting than Lund. The number of students is 
fifteen hundred, three times as great as at Lund. Many of the 
students are poor and are obliged to spend the vacations in 
Upsala, only returning home at the completion of their studies. 
They are divided according to the nations or provinces of Sweden, 
each of which has a club house, that of the Stockholm-nation 
being the finest. Each nation has also a lot and monument in the 
cemetery, and most of the students who die at Upsala are buried 
there, as it is a long journey to some of the provinces. In fact, 
Americans who judge of European distances from Great Britain 
and Germany are astonished at the size of N orway and Sweden. 
Professor Schibler of Christiania told me that it was half as far 
