Agardh, KARL ADOLF

Agardh, KARL ADOLF, a Swedish botanist, was born 23d January 1785, studied at Lund, and in 1812 became professor of Botany there. He subsequently took orders, and died a bishop in 1859. In several great works on the algæ, he laid the foundations of our present knowledge of these plants; and he wrote also on economics.—His son, JAKOB GEORG, born 1813, became his successor in the chair at Lund (1854–1879), and continued his labours on the algæ in a series of important works.