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of Denmark. Naturally inclined to the practical appli- 

 cations of his scientific knowledge, he then turned his 

 attention to the diseases produced by fungi in plants, 

 and during the next thirty years of his life won for him- 

 self and his little country an enviable place in the history 

 of plant pathology. As a mycologist his name is per- 

 petuated in a gigantic collection of over 30,000 specimens 

 of Danish fungi, now preserved in the botanical museum 

 of the University of Copenhagen. The one thing to 

 make this monument complete we now have the fine 

 volume (in English) on Danish Fungi by J. Lind, which 

 is based upon this collection. As a phytopathologist 

 his great contribution to literature is his comprehensive 

 work, Plantepatologi, 1 published in his seventy-second 

 year, a text-book of phytopathology based on the study 

 and experience of over thirty years devoted to the sub- 

 ject of plant diseases. Ravn says of this book: "It is 

 a book the distinctive exterior of which bespeaks the 

 sterling and personal character of its contents. The 

 series of different disease types stand sharply forth with 

 exact clearness. One feels that he has here to do with 

 proved experience. The work shows throughout the 

 characters of reliability. It takes a prominent position 

 in the world's literature" (1909 : 50). 



Frederick George Emil Rostrup was born January 28, 

 1831, on the island of Lolland. Ravn's brief statement 

 of his early life and boyhood training reads wonderfully 

 like that of Julius Kiihn. The son of a farm-manager 

 of a large estate, he received his early education in the 

 public schools. Fond of hunting, he soon became inter- 



1 Rostrup, E. : Plantepatologi, Haandbog i Leren om Plantesygdomme 

 for Landbrugere, Havebrugere og Skovbrugere, pp. I-V + 1-640, 1902. 



