title: In memoriam. Professor Dr Alina Skirgiełło (1911-2007)
abstract: While actively engaged in research and teaching at Warsaw University, Skirgieo was also deeply committed to other causes. She belonged to the Polish Botanical Society, acting, for instance, as the treasurer of the Board (1955Board ( -1977)). She was a long-time member of the Committee of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences, and became the Polish correspondent of the Committee for Mapping of Macromycetes in Europe in 1960. In 1966, she organised the Fourth Congress of European Mycologists in Warsa
journal: Acta Mycologica