Writings of the late Prof elisor Blumenbach. 



he felt the necessity of hearing other teachers, and the repu- 

 tation of Giittingen soon induced him to select it for the pro- 

 secution of his education. He arrived here on the 15th Octo- 

 ber 1772. He regarded his coming to this university as the 

 greatest good fortune for his scientific career ; and he often 

 remarked, that he participated in the saying of Schlbzer: 

 Extra Gottingam vivere non est vivere. 



By his marriage on the 19th October 1778, he became the 

 brother-in-law of Heyne ; and, as his father-in-law, George 

 Brandos, and afterwards his brother-in-law, Ernest Brandos, 

 conducted the affairs of the university, we may partly thus 

 account for Blumenbach's influential connection with these 

 matters. 



What he did for this seat of learning as a whole, and for our 

 society in particular, is known to the world, and will be re- 

 corded in history. His name is permanently inscribed in our 

 Transactions, and his memory will always recall the image of 

 extraordinary and beautiful energy and activity. 



On Ggrtuiorynchiis horridus, a new Cestoid Entozoon, By John 

 GooDsiii, Esq., M.W.S., Conservator of the Museums of the 

 Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Communicated by 

 the Author. With a Plate.* 



The genus Gymnorynchus was instituted by Rudolphi, for 

 the reception of a worm which infests the muscular tissue of the 

 Brama raji, and which had been placed by Cuvier in the genus 

 Scolex. This worm Gymnorynchus reptans (Rudolphi), Scolex 

 gigas (Cuvier), is the only species which has been hitherto ob- 

 served. It is described by Rudolphi, Cuvier, Blainville, and 

 Milne Edwards, and figured by Bremser. The characters of 

 this genus, according to Rudolphi, are : — ^body depressed^ 

 continuous, very long, with a subglobose cervical receptacle ; 

 head provided with two bipartite suckers, and emitting four 

 naked retractile proboscides. Bremser, however, represents 

 in his atlas the four proboscides not as naked, but as armed 

 with recurved hooks, an arrangement which can only be re- 

 cognised when they are fiilly extended. Milne Edwards, ih 



'^ Read before the Wcrnerlati Natural History Society, J^eWawy 20, 1841, 



