LIDICKER 1994 July 17 cont. Forstningsstation Skinnskatteberg -> Riddarhyttan -> Grimsö. This field station is owned by the Environ. Protection Agency with Director: Per Angelstrom. Also met Greg Merriman from Ontario and Par Rosenburg who is going to UC Davis for a few quarters to work with Jacqueline Schmoll-Cox. Gave informal seminar at 13:00 with w/ discussion went to ~ 14:30 ("Landscape aspects of microbiome under biodiversity"). Also met Michael Hake from Göttingen who works on landscape ecology and will see Britta Martinsson who works on black grape + Lepus timidus. G. Merriman showed us most of his study sites in which he is tracking predators on model plots - i.e. forest, forest edge, or open - forest edge. About 16:00 we left to drive Riddarhyttan when the first smelting was done from 400 BC to 200 AD using Far-vid sands (dated by 14C dating). Went on to Fagersta in Norrbag (stay at Else Andersson's comforter) and drove to Uppsala via Sala. At Sala we stopped to see Salagraven a Ag-mining dating back to 16th century, it has shafts going to 30m+ m. Had dinner at Lennart's home. July 18 - 09:00 tourist trip Lennart in Uppsala and Gamla Uppsala including visit to Carl Linnaeus's summer home at Hammarby ~ 6-7 km. S. of Uppsala. Before leaving for train met Lena Berg who works on muscovarius in S. Sweden. Hansson told us that Linnaeus wrote about 4 books about various plants of Sweden including inventories of resources, i.e., a kind of economic utilization objective - he used "economic" in his titles.