New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-20

school and university. I'M pupils were anowea Nv d
there, as he Stmssf very fanky ADMITS in candid
autobiography which has heen puhlishe0 HIS me
1nsatisfaetory reports OF the college authorities so Gi
BorGO tho rather unHlSal course o. gva p D1
srcted liberty Of action The Two nG Gt R1 isE Their
their own device paid i've rOTSss seh Studies as
pleased them and the experiment was IN every TsPc1
happy ToT stteSpG M SooSs and
Of tho University had soon reason olOf" VOWEL
He Quilted the University Of BorGo abruptly for the
singular reason that two 81 the stuoehIs nay Degt
dereestory 10 his dignity Of their body ana In
1S48 matricuated at Hesnsfors where ne WorieI h IN
During the vacSiions he accompanied 6is Isther who
some of his mineraloca excursions, and became MIN
self collector OF minerals. In 1883 he compelea ms
IN All the exaiuacns, and Immediately afterwHrd he
accompanied his feber on scientific journey 20 tne
Oural where they inspected ths copper mines OF tic
On returninr home he continued to prosecute his
oTss ON WIN %h are @ regarded yau
able. He also appointed Director OF the facuI on
Mathematics and Physics but he did not long enOy te
emolumens OF those posts, bring eashiered oeiore SIX
months were ont for some political talk at t SN S5s @
really in fault this occasion, but With INFINITE gOoo
humor observes that ne ana Gs enas 9I ros e
previous occasions that be cannot blame the GOyern
1ss oT Tsce fnGeed the % Which
1855, wears rather comiSal aspect at tnis S GIs
lance. The PROFESSOR ana his IElouub XVI huSAASJ
S Setraye oGA BY Finnish fiddler, who had helped
soul was Vexed or perhaps frightened at their manner
Of amusing themselves. Tile Professor remarks Win
great truth, that they had only hired Russian nt
sican which they might easily have DONE the party
would have got OF Free for he would not have been
Of phase and pay as he by this stroke of iiuck
young NOEaeIsold lost nothing OF hts energy and and
set out Tor Berlin passing through 81 quite
moested so that lis recent eseapade couid not nave
hapn ron n
Kerdensold, after pronng to the utmost by bis stay
in Berlin returned 20 Finland In the Summer OF 1906
and a memory OF his opposition to the Government
bad 40 completely dlsappeafed tHat lie was offered DIS
an appointment to proceed on voyage OF exploration
with handsome allowance for his expenses He chose
AlmRrist was nominated in his stead. promise was
however made to MIN that should be selected for
then proposed himself was to make geological cx
cursiol into Siberia, and especially to push on to
project, the terms Of the mission which he actually OBJ
famed not ooncidnG With teis idea Before starting ne
bis Alma Mater and then again got into trouble with nus
Old enemy the Governor5enersi count oe bergi VINO 10
had lent 90 ready an ear to the report OF
his tavern speech; This time, although he had me
less OF offence. NJ de Berg was for having him tried for
high treason. and he advised by prudent friend In
Would happen to him Indeed the Professor was subse
quently deprived OF his vt rights by order from the
StSmn @; 1853 W. NerdensEod was allowed to re-
turn to Finlani without molestationj and having In
bergen, lie offered the post OF State MlneraOglst
at Stockholm, in succession to Mosandnr. The
persecution against him, however, set on foot
by de Berg, still smsulder1ng, though II
had given out active spark, aud difficulties nme-
diat6Y about his passport When he finally 90
tanned II, ALSO it was accompanied by an emphatic
warning from the Governor to return no more ana the
Russian Minister Stockholm received orders never 10
afx visa his passport should he contemplate doing
so. The order remained IN force TIL 1862, when De
Berg was deprived of hts Governor eneralship and
from that date the Professor has been able 10 visit his
land often he has felt any desire 10 do So
Indeed, in 1867 he married Countess Anna Manner
helm, Finnish lady Of high rank, and then strange
thing happened showing how sulen and persistent Is Of
feal tyranny, forgetting and fOrgtvinR nothing
Being GesirOus OF establishing himself at Helsingf0rs
ater marriage the Professor became candidate for
the chair of niueraOgy and geology, recrtviDg the
unanimous support OF the academic council I'm his
plication for this appointment. NJ DaschkOf, Russian
Minister StOckholm then sent for him and told him
he should be at nominated II he would renouncc all
interference In Furnish politics. Dr. NordenslJod re-
fused 10 give any promise to that effect; and the
dglomattst then appealed to his newly married wife
monsieur" said she in Flencn, mon mari est Tres
decde There ended the collation., and he was not
named. 1t s hardly surprising that Professor NOrden
skiold should have subsequently obtained letters OF
naturalization a Swedish subject He sat and voted
IN the Chamber Of Mobiles during the last two Assem-
bes of the Swedish Staes and from 1860 to 1871 was
Liberal member for Stockholm. What has happened to
han since then Is part OF the grand history OF Arctic
nayigAtiOl.