OLOF

SWARTZ (1760-1818)  , Swedish botanist, was born in 1760 . He commenced his botanical studies in Upsala, under Linnaeus and Thunberg, and began early to make excursions . He made a voyage to America in 1783, visited England in 1788, returned to Sweden in 1789, and was made professor of natural history in Stockholm . He was the author of many systematic works, and largely extended our knowledge of both flowering plants and cryptogams . He died in 1818 .