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forty years, a progress wliich has contributed us uiiicli as anything 

 else to tile general advance of biological science. 



Although his pi-incipal liie-work was the founding and manage- 

 ment of the .Stution, he made many important contributions to 

 Morphological Science, especially u])on the vexed and complicated 

 problem of the evolution of the A'ertebrate head. 



His (piick perception of the trend of scientific thought had 

 recently convinced him that biology in the future would turn 

 more in the direction of experimental and ])hysiol()gical empiiry, 

 and accordingly he deterniined to increase the buildings and staff 

 of the A(]uarium for the especial purpose of offering facilities for 

 such work, and his friends may rejoice that he lived to see this 

 undertaking, which involved the erection of a wing equal in size 

 to the original building, most happily consummated. 



It was JDohrn's wish to preserve the international character of 

 the Biological Station. Great Britain has for many years been 

 represented by students appointed by Oxford, Cambridge, and the 

 British Association, in many conversations with Professor Dohrn 

 I learnt that he regarded this comiection with especial pleasure, 

 owing to his intimate friendship with Huxley and Fi'ancis Balfour 

 in the early days of the Station, and to the cordial support which 

 they had given him in difficult times. 



Built physically on a grand scale with immense reverberating 

 voice, everyone who knew him felt that his mind corresponded : 

 his bursts of humour, his explosions of anger, his ardent enthu- 

 siasms, were all iri-esistible in their spontaneous force. A man 

 of great culture in literature and the arts, especially music, he 

 never forsook right up to the end the slow and laborious method 

 of science. In the jjower and destiny of science he possessed an 

 ardent faith which amounted to idealism, almost to romanticism. 

 His sense of the mysteries of nature and what they meant for 

 man transcended the narrow bouuds of knowledge, and any 

 advance into the unknown, however small or apparently insigni- 

 ficant, was to him worth any amount of effort and sacrifice. This 

 burning enthusiasm for knowledge was certainly the source of his 

 greatness. Doubtless his wide sympathies, his knowledge of men 

 and of the world, both great and small, his extraordinary faculty 

 of linking powerful and distinguished men to his own enthusiasm, 

 contributed largely to his success ; but it would be the grossest 

 error to ascribe the outcome of his life's work to a successful 

 obsequiousness to those in power. The strength of his influence 

 resided ultimately in the strength of his belief in nature and in 

 science, without which his tact and knowledge of affairs would 

 have accomplished little. By his death natural science has lost 

 one of its most forcible and genuine leaders. [Geoffhey Smith.] 



Emil CiiKisTiAX Hanskx was born at liibe in Jutland, Denmark, 

 on May 8, 1842, and died at Copenhagen on August 27 of last 

 year. He was originally a house-decorator and pupil of the Art 

 school at Copenhagen, but he soon turned to the study of science. 



