Editing Jacob Georg Agardh

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{{short description|Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist (1813–1901)}}
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| caption           = Jacob Georg Agardh (1813–1901) painted by [[Oscar Björck]] in 1893
| birth_date        = 8 December 1813
| birth_place       = [[Lund]], Sweden
| death_date        = {{d-da|17 January 1901|8 December 1813}}
| death_place       = Lund, Sweden
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| citizenship       = Sweden
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| known_for         = ''Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum'' (1843–1863)
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| awards            =  [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]], Foreign Honorary Member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]
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'''Jacob Georg Agardh''' (8 December 1813 in [[Lund]], Sweden – 17 January 1901<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=5591|title=Jacob G Agardh – Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon|website=sok.riksarkivet.se|access-date=20 September 2019}}</ref> in Lund, Sweden) was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.<ref>{{cite book |author=Hunt Botanical Library, Carnegie-Mellon University |page=4 |title=Biographical Dictionary of Botanists Represented in the Hunt Institute Portrait Collection| publisher=G. K. Hall & Co.| place=Boston| year= 1972| isbn=0-8161-1023-9}}</ref>

==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>

==Australian female collectors and Mueller==

[[Ferdinand von Mueller]], as the Government Botanist of Victoria from 1853 to 1896, played an important role in facilitating the study of Australian flora, including algae. Mueller established an extensive network of collectors across Australia, many of whom were women. He actively encouraged these female collectors to gather specimens, which he then sent to specialists around the world for identification and description. In the case of algae, Mueller regularly corresponded with Agardh in Sweden, who was a leading expert in phycology. Mueller would send Agardh specimens collected by his network of female botanists, along with any relevant information about the specimens. Agardh would then identify and sometimes describe new species based on these specimens.<ref name="Muelleria"/>

Agardh received specimens and assistance from several female botanical collectors in Australia during his work on Australian algae. These included [[Louisa Atkinson]], who collected specimens at [[Berrima, New South Wales|Berrima]] and the [[Blue Mountains (New South Wales)|Blue Mountains]] in [[New South Wales]] in the 1860s–1870s; Miss Goodwin, who collected algae specimens at [[George Town, Tasmania]] in the late 1860s; [[Jessie Hussey]], who collected extensively in South Australia in the 1890s and corresponded directly with Agardh after Mueller's death; [[Jemima Frances Irvine]], who collected algae specimens in [[Western Australia]] in the late 1880s; and [[Mary Lodder]], who collected algae in Tasmania in the late 1880s. Agardh named several algal species after these collectors, including ''[[Dasya feredayae]]'' and ''[[Nemastoma feredayae]]'' after Susan Fereday, ''[[Kallymenia nitophylloides]]'' after Nina Hodgkinson, and ''[[Lenormandia hypoglossum]]'' and ''[[Curdiea irvineae]]'' after Jemima Irvine. Ferdinand von Mueller often acted as an intermediary, forwarding specimens from these collectors to Agardh in Sweden for identification and description.<ref name="Muelleria">{{cite journal |last1=Maroske |first1=Sara |last2=Vaughan |first2=Alison |title=Ferdinand Mueller's female plant collectors: a Biographical register |journal=Muelleria |year=2014 |volume=32 |page=126 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/280469#page/128/mode/1up}}</ref>

==Works and Botanical Collecting==
His principal work, ''Species, Genera et Ordines Algarum'' (4 vols., Lund, 1848–63), was a standard authority.<ref name=amcyc/>
Specimens collected by Agardh are cared for by the [[National Herbarium of Victoria]] (MEL), [[Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria]]<ref name="MEL">{{Cite web| url = https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?q=collector_text%3A%22Agardh%2C+J.G.%22+AND+collection_uid%3Aco55| title = AVH: The Australasian Virtual Herbarium| website = Atlas of Living Australia| access-date = 15 November 2024}}</ref>
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
* {{cite encyclopedia|last = Eriksson|first = G.|date = 1970|title = Agardh, Jacob Georg|encyclopedia = [[Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]|volume = 1|location = New York|publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons|pages = 70–71|isbn = 0-684-10114-9}}
* [http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/publication_search.php?mode=details&id=1141 Theoria Systematis Plantarum; Accredit Familiarum Phanerogarum in Series Naturales Disposito, Secundum Structurae Normas et Evolutionis Gradus Instituta. Lund Apr–Sep 1858]

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