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AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
Vol. VITI.— JANUARY, 1874.— No. 1. 
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NOTES FROM THE JOURNAL OF A BOTANIST IN 
EUROPE. 
BY W. G. FARLOW, M.D. 
PART I. SWEDEN. 
SwEDEN, and especially Upsala, is a sort of botanical Mecca, 
and, indeed, no one who has occasion to travel in the north of 
Europe would willingly refrain from visiting the tomb of Linnæus. 
‘I reached this country by way of Copenhagen, which fine city, 
as well as Hamburg I was obliged to hurry through, taking 
merely a glimpse of the Botanical and Zoological Gardens. From 
Copenhagen I crossed over to Malmoe in Sweden, and took the 
train to the old university town of Lund, where the distinguished 
algologist, Agardh, is professor, as was his father before him. ‘The 
town is, indeed, old and primitive: and-from the astonishment of 
the natives one would suppose that I was the first American ever 
seen there. Bs 
A pretty, but to me decidedly unintelligible chamber-maid 
managed after a while to understand that I wanted a room. 
Unfortunately, there was no lock to the door, and servant after 
servant entered the room without going through the ceremony of 
knocking, and inspected me and my luggage. At length, a waiter 
appeared who spoke a little German and from him I learned that 
Prof. Agardh was in the city. With a porter to carry my large 
package of algæ, I made my way to his house, before the door of 
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