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PROF. CARLOS SPEGAZZINI died on July 1 of this year. He was born on April 20, 1858, at Bairo, Italy, and was a pupil of the late P. A. Saccardo at Padua. In 1878 he contributed his first paper on mycology, a study of coprophilous fungi, to the short-lived periodical Michelia, which Saccardo edited. He published a series of notes on the diseases of the vine and began to issue fascicles of dried specimens (“Decades myco-logicas Italicæ”). In 1880 he went to the Argentine as professor of natural history at Buenos Aires. The number of fungi recorded for the Argentine was then thirty-nine. Spegazzini worked this virgin soil to the full, and until his death made continuous contributions to the mycological flora, extending his investigations to most countries of South America. His work was that of a general systematist, and in the thousand or so new species he described, practically all groups are represented. His work appears to be much more carefully done than is usual in such mass production, and is illustrated by clear and attractive drawings. Spegazzini not only accomplished an enormous amount of mycological work but also published numerous papers on Phanerogams, specialising during the last few years more particularly on Leguminosae. Odd papers on all sorts of subjects testify to his great interest in general natural history and science.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 118, 704 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118704b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/118704b0