Friesia X, 4-5
Friesia X, 4-5
Friesia X, 4-5
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From 1947 til 1955 he was Head of the Herbarium Bogoriense and be <br />
cam e a deputy professor at the University of Indonesia in 1952 .<br />
On hi s return to the Netherlands in 1956 DONK became H ead of the<br />
Myc ological Department of the Rijksherbarium at Le iden. H e gave leetures<br />
to graduat e students of mycology. He refused to accept more than one<br />
professorship in order to devote all his time to mycology. He was a Member<br />
of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and Secretary of the Biological<br />
Section of the Soci ety from 1964 til 1969 .<br />
On inv itat ion DONK sp ent a year , 1969-1970 , in t he U. S. A. as a<br />
National Science Foundation Visiting P rofesso r .<br />
Dr . DONK published more than 100 myco logi cal papers a mounti ng to<br />
more than 2300 pages. He left his personal myc olog ical herbarium a nd<br />
his extr emely valuable card-index to the Rijk sherbar ium a nd a lso a part<br />
of his library.<br />
DONK had an excellent knowledge of many gr oups of fungi. Gr adually,<br />
however, he became more and more interested in generic classification,<br />
r elati onship, and nomenclature. He seerned to have a natural leaning to <br />
war ds juridi cal matters. This together with his large library, ex traor dinary<br />
memory, and very orderly mind probably made him seek nomenclatural<br />
problems and taxonomic studies as his main line of research for many<br />
years. His papers on nomenelature were logical (but also often witty!) and<br />
they were based on a thorough understanding of what was Ol' should have<br />
been t he underlying principles of the Rules. He did much to clarify and<br />
straight en up the Rules of Nomenclature, especiaIly those parts that concerned<br />
fungi. His interpretations of the Code were not always accepted<br />
unanimously but most mycologists now accept and practice most of his<br />
r ecom mendati ons.<br />
His series of papers "The generic names proposed for Hymenomycet es"<br />
is extremely valuable. We are all greatly indebted to him for the enormous<br />
lot of painstanking detailed work done to clean up what seerned to be a<br />
hopeless Augean-stable of names. No one was better suited to that work<br />
than DONK.<br />
In hi s later years he returned to the fungi of his youth, the Polyporaceae<br />
and the Heterobasidiomycetes and published a number of valuable<br />
notes on European po lypores.<br />
P ersonally, DONK had a good humoured, often witty mind, and he was<br />
always helpful to those who asked for his opinion on nomenelature matters.<br />
He spoke several languages fluently and was elected as a mernber of<br />
several international scientific committees. More than once he was the<br />
natural chairman on scientific meetings. For instance, he was President of<br />
the Third European Mycological Congress in Glasgow 1963 .<br />
A list of his scientific publications is given in Persoonia, vol. 7 (2) :<br />
120-1 26. Bergen, August 1974.<br />
CONNY RIBER RASMUSSEN<br />
1924 - 1973<br />
Forsøgsleder, cand. hort. CONNY RIBER RASMUSSEN afgik ved døden i<br />
Canada den 12. juni 1973, kun 49 år gammel. Hermed afsluttedes brat et<br />
usædvanlig virksomt livsløb.<br />
Allerede som barn begyndte RIBER R ASMUSSEN at eksperimentere med<br />
champignondyrkning, men datidens talrige problemer m ed denne specialkultur<br />
blev en udfordring for livet. Efter kandidateksamen (1950 ) tog han<br />
på studieophold til de dengang mest betydende champignonforsøgscentre<br />
i Holland, England og USA for derefter at vende hjem i 1952 og blive