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4tli. Adolplius Pansch, M.D., surgeon to the Germania, 

 to wliom were assigned the departments of zoology, 

 botany, ethnology, and anthropology, was twenty-eight 

 years old, and studied medicine and physical science in 

 Berlin, 1860; in 1861, at Heidelberg, physiology and 

 geology ; travelled through Switzerland, attended the 

 clinical lectures in Berlin and Halle ; and later on passed 

 the prescribed examination in Oldenburg as a practical 

 physician, and was made demonstrator of anatomy in 

 July, 1865. In 1866 he acted as private tutor at the 

 University of Kiel. Pansch had written several scientific 

 treatises, from amongst which we should specify, from 

 its practical bearings and its extensive research, a 

 pamphlet upon the " Flora of the Seas." Dr. Pansch 

 received permission from the government to join the 

 expedition. 



The scientific men on board the Hansa were the two 

 following : — 



1st. Dr. Buchholz, M.D., and surgeon to the Hansa, 

 represented the departments of zoology, ethnology, and 

 anthropology. Whilst serving as tutor at the University 

 of Greifswald, he received leave to join the expedition, 

 with a grant from the Minister of Pubhc Instruction and 

 the University of £75 for his outfit. Dr. Buchholz was 

 born at Frankfort- on- the- Oder in 1837, studied in Konigs- 

 berg and Berlin, and in the Bohemian campaign of 1866 

 was assistant-surgeon in a hospital of the Prussian 

 army. 



2nd. Dr. Gustavus Laube, Vienna, professor of zoology 

 and lecturer to the University and Polytechnic School in 

 Vienna, thirty years old, was born in Teplitz, and studied 

 in Prague, Munich, and Tubingen. He was afterwards 



