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Introduction
The Swedish botanist and explorer Thorild Wulff (1877—1917)
defended his doctor’s thesis on botanical observations from
Spitz-bergen at the University of Lund in 1912. In 1906 he was appointed
demonstrator to the Central Institute of Agricultural Research in
Stockholm, and from 1909 he was leeturer in botany at the
University College of Stockholm. In 1899 he joined a Swedish-Russian
expedition to Spitzbergen and in 1902—1903 made a botanical
expedition to India combined with ethnological and ethnographical
studies. After visiting Iceland and studying in Germany, England,
and France he lived for the greater part of the period 1912 — 1914
in China and Japan collecting objects of art and handicraft for the
Röhss Museum in Gothenburg and for private collectors. There he
also collected ethnographic objects for the Ethnographical Museum
in Stockholm, especially from the Aino people. In 1916 Wulff was
appointed to the biological station on Disko Island, Greenland. Having
finished some hydrographical research on the distance between Disko
and Cape York he arrived at the Thule station in the autumn of
that year. The following year, or 1917, he joined the expedition
of the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen as a biological expert along
the northern shore of Greenland to Cape Morris Jesup but died on
the homeward journey in September. His “Greenland diaries” were
published by Axel Elvin in 1934.
The Chinese diary of Thorild Wulff, as published here, includes
only the period from his departure from Sweden on August 24th
1912 to December 31st the same year. It was written as a personal
report of his commission and sent to his principal customer, Mr.
Hjalmar Wijk, the then chairman of the board of the Röhss Museum
in Gothenburg. Together with some letters and post-cards, the diary
gives a vivid picture of his work and experiences in the Far East.
His style is frank and picturesque and the contents give many
accu-rate and interesting observations of several kinds: geological, botanical,
ethnological and political.
The Röhss Museum of Arts and Crafts was founded by the city
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