LIND’S WORK ON THE ROSTRUP 
HERBARIUM 
Lars Romell 
I beg to draw the attention of mycologists to an excellent 
work on Danish fungi as represented in the herbarium of E. 
Rostrup, revised by J. Lind. It is a big volume of about 650 
pages in large 8vo, printed at the expense of the Carlsberg Fund. 
The author, whose thoroughness and eminent ability we know 
from his previous publications, has in this monumental work 
proved himself a mycologist of high rank. 
A general idea of the aim and outline of the work may be 
obtained from the following statement from Lind’s introduction : 
Shortly after the death of Professor E. Rostrup, Ph.D., which 
occurred on January 16, 1907, I was intrusted with the honorable 
task of preparing a list of all the species of Danish fungi found 
in his herbarium. This herbarium was acquired by the University 
of Copenhagen and has been included in the Botanical Museum 
of the University. On account of the copiousness of this herbar- 
ium, the list will comprise all species of fungi which have hitherto 
been found in Denmark belonging to the groups of fungi with 
which Rostrup was mostly occupied. Plowever, in preparing the 
list, I have also endeavored to point out what an uncommonly 
diligent man and accurate investigator Rostrup has been. It was 
my intention in this way to establish a memorial in honor of E. 
Rostrup as a mycologist and phytopathologist which shall bear 
witness in foreign countries to the modest and laborious man 
whose importance as a scientist was never fully understood be- 
cause he mostly wrote in Danish. 
The subject matter of the first part of the book (pages 1-47) 
may be suggested from the following heads : “The collection of 
Danish fungi left by the late Professor E. Rostrup,” “ Danish 
mycologists previous to Rostrup,” “ Phytopathology in Denmark 
before Rostrup,” “ The assistants of E. Rostrup in the mycolog- 
ical investigation of Denmark,” “ Foreigners who have taken 
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