Editing Jacob Georg Agardh (section)

==Early life and career==
He was the son of [[Carl Adolph Agardh]], and from 1854 until 1879 was professor of botany at [[Lund University]].<ref name=amcyc>{{Cite AmCyc|wstitle=Agardh, Karl Adolf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite NIE|url=https://archive.org/stream/newinternational01gilm#page/191/mode/1up |title=Jacob Georg Agardh|year=1905}}</ref> Agardh designed the current 1862 blueprints for the botanical garden [[Botaniska trädgården (Lund)|Botaniska trädgården]] in Lund.<ref>{{cite web |author=Botaniska trädgården |url=http://www.botaniskatradgarden.se/201-238-history_in_english.htm |title=A Brief History of the Lund University Botanical Garden |access-date=13 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718120156/http://www.botaniskatradgarden.se/201-238-history_in_english.htm |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1849, he was elected a member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]]. Agardh was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1878.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=6 April 2011}}</ref> It is said that the naturalist [[Mary Philadelphia Merrifield]] learnt Swedish in order that she could correspond with him.<ref name="Creese2000">{{cite book |last=Creese |first=Mary R. S. |title=Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800–1900: A Survey of Their Contributions to Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amtGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31|date=1 January 2000|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-585-27684-7|page=31}}</ref>