Nils Johan Andersson (20 February 1821 Gärdserum,

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– 27 March 1880

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), was a Swedish botanist and traveller. He studied at

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between 1840-45 obtaining a

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. On 30 September 1851 he accompanied the Swedish expedition as botanist aboard the frigate , sailing from

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under the command of Captain Christian Adolf Virgin (1797-1870), on the first Swedish circumnavigation, calling at

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and

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, various South American ports, the Galapagos,

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and

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. On this voyage he collected at the

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in April 1853. Returning to Sweden, he was appointed Professor of Botany at

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and the Hortus Bergianus in Stockholm. His special interests were

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and

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and he published numerous papers on the systematics and morphology of these taxa. In 1875, acting on behalf of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, he acquired

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's South African collection of some 100 000 specimens. Andersson was commemorated in the

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genus '' Anderssoniopiper''. According to Yuncker, Trelease's student who completed Trelease's work after his death, there are grave doubts about the type locality of ''Anderssoniopiper panamense.'' (presently filed under ''Piper latifolium'' L.f.), which is not to be found anywhere in

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. It may well have been collected in

and mislabelled during or after the voyage.http://www.up.ac.pa:8080/Herbario/viewInfo.php?ref=taxa&valor=4077 He was elected a member of the

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in 1859.

Family

Andersson was married to the artist Anna Tigerhielm. Their son Johan Axel Gustaf Acke (1859-1924) was a well-known painter, sculptor and illustrator.

Some works

*''Enumeratio Plantarum in Insulis Galapagensibus huiusque Observatorum'' - Nils Johan Andersson (1861) *''En verldsomsegling'' Stockholm 1853-1854, 3 vols, Leipzig 1854 *''Salices Lapponiæ'' Uppsala 1845 *''Conspectus vegetationis Lapponiae'' ca. 1846 *''Atlas öfver Skandinaviska florans naturliqa familjer'' 1849 *''Cyperaceae Scandinaviae'' Stockholm 1849 *''Gramineae Scandinavae'' Stockholm 1852 *''Om Galapagos-Öernas Vegetation'' Stockholm 1854 *''Inledning till Botaniken'' Stockholm 1851-53, 3 tomos *''Väggtaflor för åskådnings-undervisningen i Botanik'' 1861 - 1862

References

Bibliography

Skogman, Carl Johan Alfred - ''"Fregatten Eugenies Resa Omkring Jorden"''... Stockholm, Adolf Bonnier, 1854
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Family

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