1. Sverker Sörlin, “Rituals and resources of natural history: the north and the Arctic in Swedish scientific nationalism,” in Michael Bravo and Sörlin, eds. Narrating the Arctic: a cultural history of Nordic scientific practices (Canton, MA: Science History Publications, 2003), 107. Much of this chapter engages with the argument sketched out by Sörlin on 104–08.
2. See in particular Urban Wråkberg, Vetenskapens vikingatåg: perspektiv på svensk polarforskning 1860–1930 (Stockholm: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Center for the History of Science, 1999), 121–23.
3. Arnold Barton, Essays on Scandinavian history (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), 259–64.
4. Johan Gunnar Andersson, “Vegaminnet,” Ymer 50 (1930): 3–12.
5. Jenny Beckman, Naturens palats: nybyggnad, vetenskap, och utställning vid Naturhistorika riksmuseet 1866–1925 (Stockholm: Atlantis, 1999), 167. This work includes a 1928 letter from Andersson suggesting that the monument was part of a broader plan to make the museum into an “institute of scientific education.” It was the only one of Andersson’s ambitious goals— which also included a sculpture of Linnaeus and a new wing that included aquaria, exhibition space, and lecture halls—to reach fruition in the following half-century.