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AS is known, Baron Nordenskjöld was born in Finland, and completed his studies at the University of Helsingfors. After his recent visit to St. Petersburg, where the celebrated explorer was made much of, he promised to stop at Helsingfors a few days, for the first time after his successful discovery of the North-East Passage and his circumnavigation of the Eurasian Continent. Having previously paid a short visit to his paternal hall (Frugärd), Nordenskjöld, accompanied by the Baroness his wife, arrived at Helsingfors on the evening of January 13. He was received at the railway station by a deputation consisting of the Rector of the University, Mr. H. Lagus; the President of the Finnish Society of Science, Mr. G. Mittag-Leffler; the Secretary, Mr. L. L. Lindelöf, and others, as well as a select chorus of students, who sang a few patriotic songs. Before the station-house a crowd numbering thousands of people stood cheering and greeting him.
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Baron Nordenskjöld in Finland 1 . Nature 23, 340 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023340b0
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