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IT is with much regret that we record the sudden death, on November 10, at Copenhagen, of Herluf Winge, who for many years, and until his death, was “Viceinspektor” in the Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen. As a lad Winge began to study the small mammals of Denmark, and his earliest papers upon this subject were full of promise. A little later, in 1877, while still a student in the University of Copenhagen, he published an account of some of the skull characters in the mole, shrew, and other Insectivora, in which he displayed not only remarkable learning but a most clever technique. In 1882 he gave his views upon the mammalian dentition and his theory of cusp homologies in a paper which will ever be regarded as a classic. In the same year appeared an account of a collection of mammals from Greece; and in preparing this Winge was led so far afield investigating the relationships and special adaptations of the species before him that he himself regarded this piece of work as the foundation of the important publications next to be noticed.
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H., M. Herluf Winge. Nature 112, 946–947 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112946b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112946b0