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THE oldest naturalist in the world, as respects both age and the priority of his writings, has now left it. S. Nilsson of Lund, in Sweden, was born in 1787, and therefore was nearly a centenarian at the time of his death. His earliest publication was in 1812, being a paper on the various methods of classifying the Mammalia; and in every subsequent year he enriched the scientific literature of his own and other countries. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History and the Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, for instance, contained several articles from his experienced pen. He especially devoted himself to the fauna of Scandinavia, and became the pioneer of that host of naturalists who have so ably distinguished themselves by similar researches and publications. He was a zoologist, palaeontologist, anthropologist, ethnologist, and antiquary. Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit.
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JEFFREYS, J. Professor Nilsson . Nature 29, 172 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029172d0
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