Jakob Johan Adolf Appellöf ( Garda on

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2 November 1857 – Uppsala 5 January 1921) was a Swedish marine zoologist. Appellöf matriculated at Uppsala University in 1877, earned his

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in 1886 and became a docent of zoology in 1887. In 1889 he received the position of conservator at the Museum of Bergen in

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. He was appointed professor of comparative anatomy in Uppsala in 1910. With a donation from the sawmill magnate Bünsow, Appellöf established the Klubban Biological Station of Uppsala University, a station for the study of marine biology located on the west coast of Sweden. In 1919 he was elected a member of the

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and in 1920 of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala. He made several important contributions to the knowledge of

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Partial bibliography

*"Die schalen von Sepia, Spirula und Nautilus, Studien über ihren Bau und Wachsthum" (in: ''Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar'', SSN 0023-5377 N.F., 25:7) *"Teuthologische beiträge", 1–4 (1889–1892, in: ''Bergens museums aarsberetning och aarbog'') *"Cephalopoden von Ternate" (in: ''Abhandlung der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft'', Bd 24, H. 4, 1898) *"Über das vorkommen innerer Schalen bei Octopoda" (in: ''Bergens Museums Aarbog'' 1899). *"Über einige Resultate der Kreuzbefruchtung bei Knochenfischen" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1894–95) *"Zur Kenntnis der Edvardsien" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1891) *"Studien über Actinien-Entwicklung" (''Bergens Museums Aarbog'', 1900. N:o 1, 1900). *"Untersuchungen über den Hummer: mit besonderer Berücksichtigung seines Auftretens an den Norwegischen Küsten" (in: ''Bergens Museums Skrifter'', SSN 0365-981X 8; N.R., 1:1, 1909; awarded the Joachim Friele Gold Medal). {{DEFAULTSORT:Appellof, Adolf 19th-century Swedish zoologists 1857 births 1921 deaths Swedish marine biologists Marine zoologists People from Gotland