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9. Zoanthus rubricornis. 



10. Leporines. ('Zoologist.') 



11. Two uew Corals. 



12. Caryophyllia Clavus. 



13. Felis rubiginosa. 



14. Catalogue of Birds found in Ceylon. 



15. Cetacean on West coast of Ceylon. 



16. Xenospongia patellifwmis on coast of Ceylon. 



17. Ceylonese Birds. (' Ibis.') 



18. Sea-fisheries. (' Nature.') 



19. Astacus in Spain, 1880. 



(1) Handbook to the Fish House in the Gardens of the 



Zoological Society of London. 1860. 8vo. 



(2) Deep Sea Fishing. 1874. 8vo. 



(3) Sea-fisheries. (With A. Young.) 1877. 8vo. 



(4) Sea-fisheries of Great Britain and Ireland. 



1883. 8vo. 



Dr. Ambbosius Arnold Willem Hubrecht was born in Eotter- 

 dam on March 2nd, 1853, and died on March 21st, 1915, in 

 Utrecht, in the university of which place he was the distinguished 

 professor of Embryology. 



After a markedly successful career at school in Eotterdam and 

 Delft, young Hubrecht took up the study of natural science in 

 Utrecht as a pupil of Professor Harting and Professor Dondei's. 

 His training in matters zoological was varied and thorough. 

 Thus in 1873-74 he studied at Leiden under Dr. Emil Selenka, 

 and at Naples, where he commenced his work upon the Nemer- 

 tines which lirst made his name familiar to zoologists. From 

 this period dated his friendship with Dr. Anton Dohrn and 

 Sir Bay Lankester, whose influence he felt throughout his life's 

 work. 



In 1874 he was granted his doctor's degree at Utrecht, the 

 thesis submitted for which was " Aanteekeniugen over de anatomie, 

 histologie en ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van eenige Nemertinen." 



He again came under the influence of Professor Emil Selenka, 

 to whom he went as assistant in Erlangen. Returning to Leiden, 

 he became curator of the Eijks Museum voor natuurlijke historie, 

 in which capacitj^ he was brought into correspondence with Gegen- 

 baur, to whom he subsequently went at Heidelberg and attended 

 the lectures of that great master of Vertebrate Comparative 

 Anatomy. It was at this time that Hubrecht wrote his paper 

 " Beitrag zur Kenntniss des Kopfskeletts der Holocephalen." 



In 1880 Hubrecht married Miss Marie Molewater, daughter 

 of Dr. G. B. Molewater, of Eotterdam, a lady to whose never- 

 failing interest and sympathy in his work not a little of the 

 professor's success iu after-life must be ascribed. 



Together with his wife Hubrecht now spent more than a year 

 at Naples following out his earlier work on Nemertines. At the 

 early age of 29 he was elected to the Professorship of Zoology in 



