[9io3 Austria s Greatest Zoologist 



him still busy despite his seventy-six years, and 

 occupying humble lodgings in a stone annex to the 

 niuseum, with only an elderly servant looking after 

 his comfort. To the Vienna public he was a ''bekann- 

 ter Fischkenner;' to his colleagues an investigator of 

 the first rank. His last set of papers, quartos dealing 

 with certain Brazilian fishes, passed into the hands of 

 the British censor, from whom only the second 

 part has yet come across. 



During the war I heard nothing from him, nor did a 

 1 learn until 1920 how he had fared in the ordeal "=^°^<'''' 

 through which Vienna is still passing. But his sue- ^""^ 

 cessor, Dr. Victor Pietschmann, informs me that he 

 died on December 10, 1919, his final illness and 

 death being directly due to the inability of the 

 museum to procure coal for heating any of its ofiftces 



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