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Georg Ossian Sars, the Glossary

Prof Georg Ossian Sars HFRSE (20 April 1837 – 9 April 1927) was a Norwegian marine and freshwater biologist.^[1]

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19th-century Norwegian zoologists
20th-century Norwegian zoologists
Marine zoologists
Norwegian carcinologists
Norwegian marine biologists

Atlantic cod

The Atlantic cod (cod; Gadus morhua) is a fish of the family Gadidae, widely consumed by humans.

Bergen Cathedral School (Norwegian: Bergen Katedralskole, Latin: Schola Cathedralis Bergensis, formerly known as Bergens lærdeskole and Bergen latinskole and colloquially known as Katten) is an upper secondary school in Bergen, Norway.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Diplostraca

The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, is a superorder of small, mostly freshwater crustaceans, most of which feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter, though some forms are predatory.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Ernst Sars

Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars (11 October 1835 – 27 January 1917) was a Norwegian professor, historian, author and editor. Georg Ossian Sars and Ernst Sars are academic staff of the University of Oslo and People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School.

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Eva Nansen

Eva Helene Nansen (née Sars; 17 December 1858 – 9 December 1907) was a celebrated Norwegian mezzo-soprano singer.

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Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject".

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Fishery

Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place (a.k.a., fishing grounds).

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Flora, Norway

Flora is a former municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

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Freshwater biology

Freshwater biology is the scientific biological study of freshwater ecosystems and is a branch of limnology.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Hordaland

Hordaland was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties.

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Ichthyoplankton

Ichthyoplankton (from Greek: ἰχθύς,, "fish"; and πλαγκτός,, "drifter") are the eggs and larvae of fish.

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.

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Kinn (former municipality)

Kinn is a former municipality in the Sunnfjord district of Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

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Linnean Medal

The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year.

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Manger, Norway

Manger is a village in Alver municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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Maren Sars

Maren Cathrine Sars (née Welhaven; 17 August 1811 – 27 December 1898) was a Norwegian socialite.

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Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Michael Sars

Michael Sars (30 August 1805 – 22 October 1869) was a Norwegian theologian and biologist. Georg Ossian Sars and Michael Sars are 19th-century Norwegian zoologists, academic staff of the University of Oslo, Norwegian carcinologists, Norwegian marine biologists and People educated at the Bergen Cathedral School.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Norsk biografisk leksikon

Norsk biografisk leksikon is the largest Norwegian biographical encyclopedia.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Order of St. Olav

The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or Sanct Olafs Orden, the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847.

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Oslo

Oslo (or; Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Oslo Cathedral School

Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole (Oslo Cathedral School) and more commonly as "Katta", is a selective upper secondary school located in Oslo, Norway.

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Patronage

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows on another.

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Pelagic zone

The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth.

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Research vessel

A research vessel (RV or R/V) is a ship or boat designed, modified, or equipped to carry out research at sea.

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Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology

The is a research establishment located at Bergen in Norway.

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Sarsia

Sarsia is a genus of hydrozoan in the family Corynidae.

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Skiing

Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.

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Species description

A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.

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Systematics

Systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time.

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University of Oslo

The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo; Universitas Osloensis) is a public research university located in Oslo, Norway.

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Water column

The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrient salts) characteristics of seawater at different depths for a defined geographical point.

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Wilhelm Lilljeborg

Wilhelm Lilljeborg (6 October 1816 – 24 July 1908) was a Swedish zoologist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ossian_Sars

Also known as G. O. Sars, G.O. Sars, Georg Sars, Ossian Sars.

Georg Ossian Sars, the Glossary

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See also

19th-century Norwegian zoologists

20th-century Norwegian zoologists

Marine zoologists

Norwegian carcinologists

Norwegian marine biologists

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