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### Author
Rink, Henrik Johannes (1819-1893), Danish (of German parents) geographer, geologist and explorer; Dr. phil. Kiel 1844; participated in the circumnavigation of the *Galathea* 1845-1846 (until Penang), surveying the Nicobars; in Northern Greenland 1848-1855; Royal Inspector (Governor) of South Greenland 1855-1868; Director of the Royal Greenland Board of Trade (Kön. Grönl. Handel) 1871-1882; retired to Christiania (Oslo).
**Abbreviated name**: *Rink* \[standard form in IPNI: *Rink*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection C|C]]; further material at [[Collection K|K]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]]. – Rink's collections were among those on which J. Lange based his *Consp. pl. Groenl.* 1880-1894, TL-2/4185. Some correspondence at [[Collection S|S]]; other archival material in the Smithsonian Archives SIA 7073.
#### Bibliography and biography
CSP 5: 209, 8: 752, 11: 186, 12: 620; Herder p. 57; IH 2: (files); Jackson p. 366, 367; Kew 4: 474; PR 7635; Rehder 1: 481. SK 1: 439, 5: cccxiv; TL-2/see J.M.C. Lange.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Geogr. Jahrb. 19: 385. 1897 (biogr. details and bibl.); b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893); Leopoldina 29: 211. 1893 (obit. not.); Medd. Grønland 16: i-iv. 1896 (obit., portr.); Scott. geogr. Mag. 11: 20. 1895 (obit.).
- Brown, R., Geogr. J. 3(1): 65-67. 1894 (obit.).
- Christensen, C., Danske bot. hist. 1: 500, 504, 604. 1925, 2: 298-299. 1925 (bibl.; b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893).
- Embacher, F., Lex. Reisen 248. 1882.
- Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. München 16: 423. 1980 (Greenland lich. at M through Deichmann-Brandt and Arnold).
- Jørgensen, C.A. et al., Biol. Skr. Dan. Vid. Selsk. 9(4): 5. 1958.
- Kornerup, T., Overs. Medd. Grønland 1876-1912: 105. 1913 (bibl.).
- Ostermann, H., Dansk biogr. Leks. 19: 560-564. 1940.
- Poggendorff, J.C., Biogr.-Lit. Handw.-Buch 3: 1121. 1898 (b. 26 Aug 1819, d. 15 Dec 1893).
- Rydberg, P.A., Augustana Coll. Libr. Publ. 5: 27. 1907.
- Steenstrup, K.J.V., Geogr. Tidskr., Kjøbenhavn 12: 162-166. 1894 (obit.).
- Warming, E., Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 188-189. 1881 (bibl.).
### Publications
##### n.9242. Die Nikobarischen Inseln
**Title**
*Die Nikobarischen Inseln*. Eine geographische Skizze mit specieller Berücksichtigung der Geognosie... Kopenhagen (Verlag von H.C. Klein...) 1847. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Nikobar. Ins.*
**Notes**
*Publ*.: 1847, frontisp., p. \[i-viii\], \[1\]-188, 1 map. *Copies*: GOET (inf. G. Wagenitz). Notes on botany on p. 127-139 (see also Flora 31: 398. 1848).
##### n.9243. Grønland
**Title**
*Grønland* geografisk og statistisk beskrevet... Kjøbenhavn (I Commission hos Universitetsboghandler Andr. Fred. Høst...) 1852-1857, 2 vols.
**Abbreviated title**: *Grønland*.
**Notes**
*1*(*1*): 1852, p.\[i-x\], \[1\]-202, \[203-206\], 1 map, *5 pl*. Botanical notes on p. 154-165; see also W.J. Hooker, J. Bot. 5: 122-124.
*1*(*2*): 1855, p. \[i-iv\], \[1\]-218, \[219-220\], *1 pl*.
*2*: 1857, p.\[i\]-v, \[vi\], \[1\]-416, 3 maps, *3 pl*., Naturhistorisk Tillaeg \[1\]-172, in which on p. 106-135, J. Lange, Oversigt over Grønlands planter.
*Copies*: H (inf. P. Isoviita), GOET (inf. G. Wagenitz).
##### n.9244. Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse af Grønland
**Title**
*Naturhistoriske Bidrag til en Beskrivelse af Grønland*,... Kjøbenhavn (Louis Kleins Bogtryckkeri) 1857. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Naturh. Bidr. Grønland*.
**Notes**
*Authorship*: J. Reinhardt, J.C. Schiødte, O.M.L. Mørch, C.F. Lütken, J. Lange (botany: p. 106-136) and H.J. Rink.
*Publ*.: 1857, p. \[i\], \[1\]-172, map. *Copy*: USDA. – Constitutes vol. 2 of H.J. Rink, *Grønland geografisk og statistisk beskrevet*, Kjøbenhavn 1857.
*English translation*: see below, *Danish Greenland*, which has so many alterations that it is virtually a new work.
##### n.9245. Danish Greenland
**Title**
*Danish Greenland* its people and its products... edited by Dr Robert Brown,... London (Henry S. King & Co.) 1877. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Dan. Greenland*.
**Notes**
*Editor*: Robert Brown (1842-1895).
*Publ*.: Mai-Jun 1877 (Liverpool copy rd 12 Jul 1877; preface dated Mai 1877), p. \[i\]-xvii, map, \[1\]-448, *16 pl. Copies*: H (inf. P. Isoviita), LC, LIV (city libr., inf. J. Edmondson), p. 409-428, Synopsis of the Greenland flora (409-414 Synopsis by J. Lange; 415-422 Catalogue of the cryptogamous plants by R. Brown, 423-428 general remarks on the Greenland flora by R. Brown).