Hulten, Eric

Flora of Alaska and Yukon. Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1941-1950. (3 VolumeS) [WITH] Outline of the History of Arctic and Boreal Biota During the Quarternary Period. Their Evolution During and After the Glacial Period as Indicated by the Equiformal Progressive Areas of Present Plant Species. Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1937. (Presentation Copy)

Lund: C.W.K. Gleerup, 1941. Hardcover. Signed. Very Good. Item #45274

Parts I-X + supplement and index bound in three volumes. Lunds Universitets Arsskrift. N.F. Avd. 2. Bd 37-46. Nr 1. Kungl. Fysiografiska Sallskapets Handlingar N.F. Bd 52-61. Nr 1. Full black cloth, gilt titles, raised spine bands. Speckled edges. 1-567; 572-1200; 1203-1902 pp. Total of 1395 B&W maps in text (one to p. 5 and the rest at the end of each part, numbered 1-1280b) + one foldout map. Seventeen B&W figures in text, 5 plates. Very light rubbing to extremities, cracking to joints. Notations to endpapers, scholarly pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. Light soiling to rear board of vol. II. Ink smudge to p. 391. Spotting to pp. 416-417, small spot to upper margin of p. 538. Long crease to title page of part VIII. Some light edge toning to text blocks, but largely bright and clean to interior. Light spotting to lower gutter at p. 1519, inner hinge starting at p. 1528. Arctic Bibliography 7540; Ricks p. 125. Eric Hulten [1894-1981] was a Swedish botanist and former head of the botany section at the Swedish Museum of Natural History. "The situation of Alaska and Yukon at the shallow and narrow Bering Strait, only 92 kilometres broad, separating the new world, makes this region an area of primary interest as soon as any questions about the Quarternary history of the arctic or boreal floras or the relation of the somewhat different floras of these two continental blocks are discussed. No scientific flora treating all species of vascular plants occurring in these two vast territories has ever been published, and the need for such a work has been strongly felt by taxonomists and phytogeographers concerned with the relation and distribution of plants belonging to the arctic and boreal zones. The present work is intended to fill this need. In 1932 the author undertook an expedition to one of the least known parts of this area, viz. the Aleutian Islands, and at the same time gained some field experience of the Flora of the southern Alaskan coast. The chief results of this journey are already published in [his] »Flora of the Aleutian Islands».but the results of [his] work along the southern Alaskan coast are included here." Provenance: Bears ownership marks and notes of Morten Pedersen Porsild [1872-1956], Danish botanist, apparent gift inscription to his son [Robert] Thorbjorn, with a reference to his son Erling (Alf Erling Porsild). With apparent further inscription from "Thor" to Erling. [WITH] Outline of the History of Arctic and Boreal Biota During the Quarternary Period. Their Evolution During and After the Glacial Period as Indicated by the Equiformal Progressive Areas of Present Plant Species. Stockholm: Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1937. Half leather, marbled paper boards. Speckled edges. Ink notations to front endpapers and title page. 168 pp. B&W maps and illustrations in text. Supplemental volume of coloured maps, [43] plates, plate 43 folding, inserted to pocket at rear pastedown. Bowing to front board. Rubbing to extremities, spot of rubbing to rear board, scuffing to leather, slight cracking to joints. Perforation to head of rfep. Some sporadic neat pencil marginalia to ffep and text. Text block is lightly age toned. "This paper is an attempt to summarize under one general view the knowledge of the areas of the arctic and boreal plants gained in the course of eighteen years of alternate field and museums studies on the subject." This is Hulten's doctoral dissertation for Lund University. Provenance: Presentation copy; "Dr. M. Porsild, with the compliments of the author" to head of title page. Bears ownership marks and notes of Morten Pedersen Porsild [1872-1956], Danish botanist, and his son Alf Erling Porsild [1901-1977], also a botanist and former curator of the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa (1936-45). A mountain in Yukon was named for Erling Porsild for his contributions of the field of Canadian Arctic botany. Colm Feore portrayed him in a 1998 documentary by Peter Lynch.

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