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WE regret to record the death of Baron Nils Erland Nordenskild, the Swedish ethnologist and explorer, which took place at Göteburg on July 5. Baron Erland Nordenskiöld, who was fifty-five years of age, was a member of a family already distinguished in the annals of exploration. He was the son of Baron Adolf Nordenskild, who discovered the North-East Passage, and a cousin of Prof. Otto Nordenskiöld, who led the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1902-3. He himself specialised in the investigation of the aboriginal cultures of America, and had travelled extensively among the native tribes, especially the less well-known, of both Central and South America, upon whom he had for long been recognised as the first authority.
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Baron Erland NordenskiÖld. Nature 130, 121 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130121a0
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