Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German in the Field of the Natural Sciences, Vol. 6

In the early part of his career he traveled over a large portion of the Scandinavian peninsula, gathering rich spoils, and, later, supported by royal patronage, sent forth not a few of his young disciples, to bring back from distant lands like treasures to the museum of the University. These it became his business to examine, describe, name, figure, classify and give permanent record in a long series of publications, which contain articles pertaining to chemistry, mineralogy and zoology, although botany holds the chief place.

The impression produced by such achievements - an impression that has not yet spent its force, but continues to inspire and stimulate scientific research in new lines and channels all the world over - was then felt far and wide amongst his contemporaries in Europe. By reason of his presence at Upsala, the number of students in the University rapidly rose from 500 to 1500. And the attractive power reached beyond the Atlantic, for, in a list of a party of seven, who under his leadership made an expedition into the province of Dalecarlia, occurs the name of Sandel, "a Pennsylvanian." One of his disciples, Professor Kuhn, delivered courses of lectures on botany in Philadelphia, and the great master has perpetuated his memory in the genus Kuhnia.

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