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ested in the natural history of the game he sought, espe- 

 ciaUy birds. After a year as secretary to his father he 

 went, at the age of nineteen, to Copenhagen, where he 

 studied natural history and mathematics in the Poly- 

 technical School and in the University. Here for seven 

 years he studied, getting the best the University had to 



Emil Rostrup. 



The most noted Danish phy topathologist. (From a portrait in "Botanisk 



Tidiskrift," vol. xxviii.) 



offer in mathematics and natural history, especially 

 botany and agriculture. Having passed his final exam- 

 inations, he accepted, at the age of twenty-six, the posi- 

 tion of teacher in mathematics and natural history at the 

 public seminary at Skaarup in southern Fiinen. Here 

 he lived and taught for twenty-five years. It was during 

 the leisure of these years that he made himself both a 



