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Verschiebung der Muskeln gegen einander stattfinden, damit dieselben 

 in ihre definitive Lage gelangen. 



Wir lassen aber dabei die Möglichkeit offen, daß diese nicht in 

 allen Fällen ganz gleichzeitig einsetzt. 



Vossius hat jedenfalls richtig beobachtet, wenn er eine Verlage- 

 rung der Muskeln beschreibt. Eine Drehung des Bulbus kann man 

 aus derselben allerdings nicht folgern. 



Auf die kürzlich erschienenen Untersuchungen von Reuter 

 (Gratulationsschrift für Merkel in den Anatomischen Heften) über 

 die EntwickeluDg der Augenmuskeln beim Schwein kommen wir an 

 anderer Stelle zurück. 



Gießen, 27. Januar 1898. 



Thomas Jeffery Parker f. 



Thomas Jeffery Parker, who died at Warrington, New Zealand, 

 on Nov. 7, 1897, was the eldest son of the late William Kitchen 

 Parker F. R. S., the world- renowned comparative osteologist. He was 

 born in the S.W. district of London on October 17, 1850 and educated 

 there, and his scientific training was received at the Royal School of 

 Mines during the years 1868—1871. Leaving that Institution with 

 distinction, Parker became Science Master at the Bramham College^ 

 Yorkshire, and Mr. W. B. Lockwood, now Assistant Surgeon at Bar- 

 tholomew's Hospital, London, may be named, as an anatomist who 

 in his school-boy days came under his influence. In 1872, at the 

 special request of Huxley, Parker returned to London, to fill 

 the office of Demonstrator of Biology at the then newly established 

 Science College at South Kensington, now known as the Royal College 

 of Science London, and he held the post until his appointment in 1880 

 to the Professorship of Biology at the University of Otago, Dunedin, 

 New Zealand. As a teacher Parker will remain memorable in asso- 

 ciation with the development of the now universally adopted Hux- 

 leian method of Laboratory Instruction in Biology, known and re- 

 cognised throughout the world as the "type system", which marked 

 the introduction of rational methods into the teaching of biological 

 science. So earnestly did Parker enter into the task of development 

 of this under his great master, that he early became the means of 

 effecting conspicuous changes in its methods, and he will be remem- 

 bered in history as the man to whom were mainly due its progress 

 beyond the experimental stage and the foundation, in connection with 

 it, of the first teaching-collection of specimens and illustrative anato- 



