Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London - University Library

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good employer, and eager in procuring new plants for cultivation
altogether a remarkable man, whose death has caused regret among
a large circle of correspondents.
Julius Victor Carus, Foreign Member since 7th May, 1885.
has recently passed away, in bis eightieth year, for nearly a third
of which period he was editor of the ' Zoologiscber Anzeiger.*
He was born at Leipzig on 25tli August, 1823, and from 18-11
onwards pursued his medical and other studies at that University.
Thence he went to study comparative anatomy at Freiburg in Baden,
and in 1849 be was at Oxford, were he acted as conservator of the
Museum of Comparative Anatomy, and thus acquired a command
of our language. He returned to Leipzig in 1851 as Docent, and
there he remained practically during the remainder of his life,
making a break in 1873-74 while acting as locum tenens in Edinburgh
for Prof. Wyville Thomson, then Avith the ' Challenger."
He was a man of great industry, but devoted his energies to the
history of his science, translations, bibliographies, and the like,
rather than to original research. He \\as a tool-maker, rather
than a tool-user, a type of worker apt to be ignored, though made
use of by others, whose gratitude, if existent, is apt to be evanescent.
He translated many of Darwin's works into German, from 1866
onward, and communicated oversights in the original to the author,
thus securing for the German versions a greater accuracy than in
the original issue.
8ome of his more noteworthy productions may be mentioned,
as his ' Zur nahern Kenntniss des Generationswechsels,' 1849 ;
' System der thierischen Morphologie,' 1853 ;
' Wertbestimmung
der zoologischen Merkmale,' 1854 ;
' Prodromus Faunae Mediterraneae,'
1884-1893, and ' Geschichte der Zoologie,' 1872 : with
Gerstaecker, ' Handbuch der Zoologie,' 1875, and with Engelmann,
his ' Bibliotheea Zoologica,' 1862.
Britain was not unmindful of his merit : he was D.C.L. of
Oxford, and M.D. of Edinburgh University ; his election as one
of our Foreign Members took place eighteen years ago, and of
the Zoological Society of London in 1897. He died on the 20th
March, 1903, leaving a widow, a son and three daughters.
Francois Crepin.—By the death, at Brussels, on the 20th of
April, 1903, of Francois Crepin, Belgium has lost her doyen
botanist. He was born at Eochefort, in the province of Namur,
on Oct. 30th, 1830. Eochefort is a small country-town near the
southern boundary of Belgium, situated in the valley of the Lesse,
a tributary of the Mouse, surrounded by limestone hills. Here
Crepin devoted himself at an early age to the study of botany and
laid the foundation of his large collection of Eoses. His first
publication, which appeared in 1859 in the Memoirs of the Eoyal
Academy of Belgium, was entitled " Notes sur quelques plantes
rares ou critiques de Belgique." This was followed by four
others with the same title, extending down to 1865. In 1860
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