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Rostrup. Prominent in the agricultural activities of his 

 country, he was for many years professor and director 

 of the Botanical Division of the Swedish Central Station 

 for Agricultural Experiments in Stockholm. He has 

 recently retired. 



Eriksson has devoted himself primarily to the diseases 

 of cereal crops, especially the rust diseases; his most 



JAKOB ERIKSSON. 



Most noted Swedish phytopathologist. (From a portrait in Wittrock's 

 "Acta Horti Bergiani.") 



important contribution along this line being the work on 

 cereal rusts, published in 1896 with E. Henning as co- 

 author. 1 It is a volume of 464 pages with fine colored plates. 

 To Eriksson belongs the credit of having discovered 



1 Eriksson, J., and Henning, E.: Die Getreideroste, ihre Geschichte 

 und Natur, sowie Massregeln gegen dieselben, pp. I-VIII + 1-464, 

 Stockholm, 1896. This was first published in 1894 in Xo. 38 Med- 

 delanden fran Kongl. Landtbruks Akademiens Experimentalfalt. It 

 was translated from the Swedish into German by C. O. Xordgren. 



