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in fish are classic. The Oxford Medical School is his enduring 

 monument, and in the minds of all who knew him Burdon- 

 Sanderson's personality, striking, attractive, inspiring, will colour 

 the memory of his achievements. 



Sir John Burdon-Sanderson received many honours from 

 learned Societies during his lifetime. He was thrice Croonian 

 Lecturer, twice for the Royal Society, in 1867 and 1877, and 

 once for the Royal College of Physicians, in 1891. In 1878 he 

 was Harveian Orator for the College of Physicians, and in 1880 

 received the Baly Medal. For special research work and for 

 his general services to physiology and pathology he was awarded 

 in 1883 one of the Royal Medals of the Royal Society, of which 

 institution he was a Fellow. 



He served on three Royal Commissions — that on Hospitals in 

 1883, that on the Consumption of Tuberculous Meat and Milk 

 in i8go, and that on the University of London, 1892-94. In 

 1893, Sir J. Burdon-Sanderson was President of the Nottingham 

 meeting of the British Association. He was elected an Honorary 

 Member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 in 1894. F. W. G. 



Professor Gegenbaur was born in Wiirzburg on August 21st, 

 1826. He attended the local "Gymnasium," and in 1845 

 matriculated in the University of his native town as a student of 

 medicine and natural science. Under the guidance of such 

 distinguished leaders as Kolliker, Virchow, Leydig, and Heinrich 

 Miiller, Gegenbaur acquired a thorough grasp of the comparative 

 method, and his first post-graduate work was an investigation 

 into the life-histories of Medusae and other marine organisms, 

 which he carried out partly in the North Sea partly in the 

 Mediterranean in the stimulating company of Johannes Miiller 

 and Kolliker. For two years Gegenbaur continued to work out 

 the marine zoology of Italy, and in this period much of his grasp 

 of invertebrate anatomy was acquired. 



In 1855 Gegenbaur was made Professor of Zoology and allied 

 subjects in the University of Jena, but in 1862, upon the re- 



