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Mortensen, Danish professor and
echinoderm specialist at
the Zoological Museum provided an enormous marine collection
to the museum. He collected many species on his expeditions
e.g.:
1899-1900 The Siam Expedition
(Gulf of Siam)
1905-1906 Expedition to the
Danish West Indies
1911 The Bergen-Trondhjem
Expedition
1913-1916 New Zealand, Mauritius,
Hawaii, California, Panama on the government ships Hinemoa
and Amokura.
1929-1930 Java, Mauritius, South
Africa, St. Helena, Canary Islands
Author of "A Monograph of the
echinoidea" and "Report on the echinoidea collected by the
United States fisheries steamer "Albatross" during the
Philippine expedition, 1907-1910".
There is a story that Mortensen should
travel on the F.I.S. Endeavour from Australia to Macquire in
1914, but luckily for him he was committed elsewhere because
this ship sank without trace near Macquire.
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