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nator of the ideas about the evolution of mammalian teeth, as they 

 are represented in the Cope-Osborn theory, which has grown so 

 famous. Unfortunately, his numerous later writings about mammals 

 shared the same fate and did not become as well known as they de- 

 served. I have always been striving to call attention to their great 

 importance. The Danish language was a hindrance to making them 

 known in wider circles, not to speak of including them in the 

 mammalogists' every day literary apparatus. This has doubtless 

 been to the great harm of science. * * * As I had the privi- 

 lege of knowing Winge personally, I know his reluctance to publish 

 in another language than his mother tongue. I can thus imagine 

 that there may be ethical obstacles in translating into another lan- 

 guage his ' Pattedyr-Slaegter,' which is, in reality, a kind of scien- 

 tific testament. Otherwise a translation of 'Pattedyr-Slaegter' 

 would be a ' monumentum aere perennius,' which many might admire, 

 and which would be of use to many, while in its Danish garment it 

 is confined to a small circle of admirers." 



I hope with these words to have given you an impression both of 

 Winge's noble personality and of his exceedingly great contribution 

 to Danish science. At the Zoological Museum, to which he conse- 

 crated his powers from his earliest youth to his last day, nobody 

 will for the present be able to fill his place. We, his colleagues, 

 can never forget him, and also here in the Academy of Sciences that 

 had the honor of counting him among its members, we shall cherish 

 his memory. 



