Herluf Winge. 
By 
Ad. S. Jensen. 
(Translated from »Xalurens Verden«, March 11)24, by Kirstine Soelmann). 
In full possession of his mental powers and still intent on his 
work, Herluf Winge unexpectedly died on November lOth 1923, at 
the age of nearly 67. 
Herluf Winge was born a naturalist. Even when a boy it was 
his greatest pleasure to stroll about in the open air, together with 
his brother Oluf, a few years his senior, observing plants and 
animals, especially birds and mammals. When he had graduated 
for the University (1874) he chose natural history for the study 
of his life. 
Already in 1875 Winge sent out his first paper, and still while 
an undergraduate he published two more. In one of these latter he 
makes the skull of the mole and the shrews the object of detailed 
