University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Zea E-Books Zea E-Books 6-14-2016 Per Axel Rydberg’s Botanical Collecting Trips to Western Nebraska in 1890 and 1891 Robert B. Kaul University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook Part of the Botany Commons, Intellectual History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Kaul, Robert B. and Sutherland, David M., "Per Axel Rydberg’s Botanical Collecting Trips to Western Nebraska in 1890 and 1891" (2016). Zea E-Books. Book 40. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/40 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Zea E-Books at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Zea E-Books by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Per Axel Rydberg’s Botanical Collecting Trips to Western Nebraska in 1890 and 1891 His Report and List of Specimens for 1891, Annotated and with Notes about the 1890 Trip Robert B. Kaul and David M. Sutherland In the summer of 1891, Per Axel Rydberg and his assistant, Julius Hjalmar Flodman, collected plants in western Nebraska for the United States Department of Agriculture. They collected many first-records for Nebraska as well as some that became type specimens of Rydberg’s and other botanists’ names. In the following autumn and win- ter, Ryd berg made a detailed, typewritten, carbon copied 35-page Report and 37-page List of specimens from that trip; one carbon copy is in the Bessey Herbarium (NEB) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.