Elias Melin

Johannes Botvid Elias Melin, was a Swedish botanist and professor.
Melin defended his PhD at Uppsala University in 1917. His thesis was Studies on the vegetation of the northern marshlands with special regard to their forest vegetation after drainage. He later became professor of physiological botany at the university.
Elias Melin was the son of Samuel Melin, a priest in the Church of Sweden, and Hilda Melin, née Stenborg. Some of his siblings also became priests.
He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.