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brother, the scientific meetings of the Natural History Society, re- 

 peatedly giving lectures there, after the death of his brother he with- 

 drew, lived by himself, and had intercourse with his colleagues only 

 during the working hours at the museum, which he kept with minute 

 punctuality. It was never possible to make him attend any meeting, 

 still less any social gathering. He could not even think of being 

 away from his home during the evening. In this peculiarity we 

 must seek the reason for the fact that Winge, who was, in 1910, 

 elected member of the Academy of Sciences, never attended a meet- 

 ing, a circumstance that caused him to be rather little known to all 

 those who did not get an opportunity of coming into touch with him 

 through their work. But if anybody called on Winge in his heme, in 

 his pretty villa on Lemche's Road, in Hellerup, they might be sure 

 of a very hearty welcome ; and all those who have had an opportunity 

 of knowing him more intimately — he did not in any way shun peo- 

 ple—commend him as one of the most high minded and disinterested 

 of mankind. He was so fortunate as to be financially well situated, 

 so that the smallness of the salary he received did not inconvenience 

 him; he could afford to provide himsflf with an excellent library and 

 even to pay the expenses of illustrating his papers when the Periodi- 

 cal (Vid. Medd. Dansk Naturh. Forening, K0benhavn) could not 

 afford it. He was fortunate enough to be able to devote his life to 

 his science alone — he cared little for anything else. He was 

 satisfied with his subordinate position, did not aim at power or 

 honor, and rather preferred being exempt from any official recogni- 

 tion in the form of titles or rank, only wishing to live as quietly and 

 unnoticed as possible. But when truth and right were concerned 

 he did not hold back, and on a certain occasion he did not hesitate 

 to put his position at stake, in order to prevent something that he 

 regarded as improper. 



Immediately after receiving his master of arts' degree, Winge 

 made a trip to Italy and Switzerland, a journey which he ever after- 

 wards remembered with great delight. But since then lie was prob- 

 ably never outside of the boundaries of Denmark. Besides some 

 minor journeys in consequence of the investigations of the kitchen 

 middens from the Stone Age, in which he took part, he traveled, upon 

 the whole, very little. Only once he went to Ringk0bing Fjord, on 

 account of Eambusch's investigations there, and joined in excursions 

 to " Tipperne " and " Klaegbanken." The rest of the time he stayed 

 at home making small excursions in the environs of Copenhagen, 

 partly on his bicycle. It sounds rather odd to those who knew 

 Winge personally to hear that he used to ride a bicycle ; and it must 

 be admitted that he did not look very sportsmanlike in his long, 

 black frock coat and large, black, broad-brimmed hat — the costume 

 which he always wore at the museum, as well as on excursions. 



