GUSTAF

LINDSTRSM (1829-1901)  , Swedish palaeontologist, was born tt Wisby in Gotland on the 27th of August 1829 . In 1848 he entered the university at Upsala, and in 1854 he took his doctor's degree . Having attended a course of lectures in Stockholm by S . L . Lovell, he became interested in the zoology of the Baltic, and published several papers on the invertebrate fauna, and subsequently on the fishes . In 1856 he became a school teacher, and in 1858 a master in the grammar school at Wisby . His leisure was devoted to researches on the fossils of the Silurian rocks of Gotland, including the corals, brachiopods, gasteropods, pteropods, cephalopods and crustacea . He described(with T . Thorell) a scorpion Palaeaphonus from Ludlow Beds at Wisby . He determined,the true nature of the opetculated coral Calceola; and while he described organic remains from other parts of northern Europe, he worked especially at the Palaeozoic fossils of Sweden . He was awarded the Murchison medal by the Geological Society of London in 1895 . In 1876 he was appointed keeper of the fossil Invertebrata in the State Museum at Stock-holm, where he died on the 16th of May 1901 .

See obituary (with portrait), by F . A . Bather, in Geol . Mag, (

July 1901), p• 333 .. LINDUS; one of the three chief cities of the island of Rhodes; before their synoecism in the city of Rhodes . It is situated on the E. side of the island, and has a finely placed acropolis on a precipitous hill, and a. good natural harbour just N. of it . Recent excavations have discovered the early temple of Athena Lindia on the Acropolis, and splendid Propylaea and a staircase, resembling those at Athens . The sculptors of the Laocoon are among the priests of Athena Lindia, whose names are recorded by inscriptions . Some early temples have also been found, and inscriptions cut on the rock recording the sacrifices • known as Bouea.rta . There are also traces of a theatre and rock-cut tombs . On the Acropolis is a castle, built by the knights in the 14th century, and many houses in the town show work of the same date . See RHODES; also Chr .

Blinkenberg and K . F . Kinch, Exploration

arch. de Rhodes (Copenhagen, 1904–1907) .