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### Author
Wulff, Thorild (1877-1917), Swedish botanist and explorer; Dr. phil. Lund 1902; demonstrator Central Institute of Agricultural Research 1906-1909; lecturer in botany, University College, Stockholm 1909; joined a Swedish-Russian exped. to Spltsbergen 1899; botanical exped. to India 1902-1903, Iceland 1911; travelled in China and Japan 1912-1914 (esp. collecting ethnographical objects); Greenland 1916-1917 (died while on 2nd Thule expedition).
**Abbreviated name**: *T. Wulff* \[standard form in IPNI: *T.Wulff*\]
#### Herbarium and types
[[Collection LD|LD]] (herb. rd. 1900). – Further material in [[Collection C|C]], [[Collection GB|GB]], [[Collection LD|LD]], [[Collection W|W]].
#### Bibliography and biography
Barnhart 3: 526 (b. 1 Apr 1877, d. 29 Aug 1917); BJI 2: 195; BM 5: 2367; Bossert p. 444; Kleppa p. 292; KR p. 778-780 (main bibl.); LS 29394-29396, 33025, 40733-40740.
#### Biofile
- Anon., Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 261: 655. 1965.
- Birger, S., Ymer 1919: 58-67. 1919 (biogr., portr.).
- Birket-Smith, K., Knud Rasmussen 72-80. 1937 (portr.).
- Ekblaw, W.E., Science ser. 2. 48: 132-133. 1918 (details on death on Greenland exp.).
- Elvin, A., ed., Thorild Wulffs grönlandska dagböcker, Stockholm 1934, 419 p.
- Fries, R.E., Short hist. bot. Sweden 48. 1950.
- H.G.G-S., *in* Nordisk familjebok 20: 786-787. 1934.
- Lindman, S., Sv. män kvinn. 8: 444-445. 1955.
- Rasmussen, K., Norr om människor. Berättelsen om denn andra Thule-expeditionen och utforskandet av Grönland från Mellville-bukten till kap Morris Jessup. Med utdrag ur Fil. dr Thorild Wulffs dagböcker och verdeberättelser. – Transl. from the author's Danish mss. by Axel Ahlman. 493 (8). 1919. Dedicated to the memory of T. Wulff (sev. portr.); p. 439-457: CH. Ostenfeld, Flora och fauna på Grönlands nordkust. På basis av Doktor Wullfs anteckningar.
- Wallström, T. Svenska upptäckare 188-190. 1982 (portr.).
- Wulff, T., Thorild Wulffs grönländska dagböcker. Ed. A. Elvin 419. 1934 (portr.); Resa till Kina år 1912. Dagboksanteckningar m.m. Ed. G. Axel-Nilsson (part of Wulff s Chinese diary, portr., biogr.). 112. 1966.
### Publications
##### n.18.379. Botanische Beobachtungen aus Spltzbergen
**Title**
*Botanische Beobachtungen aus Spltzbergen*. Akademische Abhandlung von Thorild Wulff, Lic. phil. Wird mit Genehmigung der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Sektion der Philosophischen Fakultät an der Universität zu Lund am 12. März 1902, 10 Uhr V.M. im Auditorium des Botanischen Instituts zur Erlangung der Doctorwürde zur öffentlichen Kritik vorgelegt. Lund (E. Malmströms Buchdruckerei) 1902. Oct.
**Abbreviated title**: *Bot. Beob. Spltzbergen*.
**Notes**
*Thesis issue*: 1-12 Mar 1902, p. \[i-iii; i: thesis-t.p., iii commercial t.p.\], \[1\]-115, \[i\]-iii, *pl. 1-2* with text \[N.B. 2 plates seen by us in HH copy; KR mentions the *4 pl*., present in the commercial ed., also for the thesis\]. *Copy*: HH.
*Commercial issue*: Mar 1902 (Bot. Not. 1 Apr 1902; AbZ 15 Mai 1902; Bot. Centralbl. 2 Apr 1902; ObZ for Mar 1902), p. \[i, commercial t.p.\], \[1\]-1 15, \[i\]-iii, *pl. 1-4* with text. *Copies*: B, G, H, M, MICH, Peterson.
*French text*: 1903, p. \[i-iii\], \[1\]-63, \[64\], *pl. 1-4. Coples*: HH, Peterson. – *Observations botaniques faites au Spltzberg*... traduit de l'Allemand par H. Marcel Hardy à Dundee. Stockholm (Aktiebolaget Centraltryckeriet) 1903. Qu. (*Observ. bot. Spltzb.*). – Issued as part of Missions sci. mesure arc méridien Spltzberg, Mission, Suèdoise, 2(10) Botanique.
*Ref*.: Fries, Th.M., Geol. För. Förhandl. 24: 370-372. 1902 (critical review).