. Danish fungi as represented in the herbarium of E. Rostrup;. Fungi. 11 not be deprived of the honour of being the first to start a systematic research of the Danish fungi and their distribution. Unfortunately the work was interrupted by the death of Kylling 1696 and for many years to come nobody interested themselves in botany or mycology. It was not until three quarters of a century later, when, in the middle of the eighteenth century, Linne had revived the botanical study, and men like Michel, Gleditsch, Sterbeck and Haller had commenced to describe the species of fungi that the study of f
. Danish fungi as represented in the herbarium of E. Rostrup;. Fungi. 11 not be deprived of the honour of being the first to start a systematic research of the Danish fungi and their distribution. Unfortunately the work was interrupted by the death of Kylling 1696 and for many years to come nobody interested themselves in botany or mycology. It was not until three quarters of a century later, when, in the middle of the eighteenth century, Linne had revived the botanical study, and men like Michel, Gleditsch, Sterbeck and Haller had commenced to describe the species of fungi that the study of fungi was resumed in Denmark. The opticians had learned how to make better magnifying glasses, and the zoologists had made great progress in their science; consequently the different subjects of study were more definitly separated than formerly. Contemporary with Batsch, Hoffmann, Schaeffer, Schrader, Albertini and Schweinitz, Bol^s TON, Jacquin, Bulliard AND Persoon are five Danish naturalists each of whom separas tely performed a significant work for the im« provement of the knowledge of fungi; they are: Holmskjold, Oeder, O. F. Muller, M. Vahl and Schumacher. Theodor Holmskjold was originally a student of medicine, but having, taken a long journey in foreign countries in coms pany with Friis Rottb0ll, the botanist, he was appointed professor of zoology and botany at the College of Soro (1762—65). Later on he abandoned this professorship for other professions. His original name was Th. Holm, when, however, in 1781, he was knighted he assumed the name of Holmskjold. Rostrup has described his life in Bricka's Biografical Dictionary. His principal study was pure mycology and both while living at Sore and during the two succeeding years which he passed in Aarhus much time was spent in observing the fungi in the forests especially Agaricaceae, Clavariaceae and Discomycetes. He did not care to find many different species, but he examined each separate one the more thoroughly, mad
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