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British Architects from 1894 to 1896, and Antiquary to the Royal 

 Academy. His old College, on the alteration of its Statutes admitting 

 the election of Honorary Fellows, took the first opportunity of electing 

 him one of them. 



A remarkable portrait of him, painted by Mr. Sargent, R.A., is in 

 the possession of the R.I.B.A., and a copy hangs in his own College at 

 Cambridge. 



F. G. P. 



GAEL GEGENBAUR. 18261903. 



Carl Gegenbaur was born at Wiirzburg, Bavaria, on August 21st, 

 1826. Having passed through the classical school or gymnasium of 

 liis native town, he, in 1845, matriculated at the University of the 

 same place as a student of medicine and natural sciences, and profited 

 of the influence of such celebrated teachers as Kolliker, Virchow, 

 Leydig, and H. Miiller. A clear proof of his preference of zoological 

 anatomical research, instead of the practice of medicine, is the subject 

 of his dissertation for the degree of M.D. (1851), "De Limacis 

 Evolutione," and the theme of his subsequent public oration, which 

 dealt with " The Variability of Organisms." The young doctor, fortu- 

 nately of independent means, soon found his way to Johannes Miiller, 

 in Berlin, with whom, however, he stopped but a short time before he 

 went with H. Miiller and Kolliker to Messina. Altogether he travelled 

 in Sicily, observing, sketching and collecting, for nearly two years, and 

 then he returned to Wiirzburg, where, in the spring of 1854, he 

 " habilitated " as privat-docent, the subject of his inaugural dissertation 

 being the " Alternation of Generations and the Propagation of Medusae 

 and Polyps." In the autumn of 1855 he accepted the post of Professor 

 extraordinarius at Jena for Zoology and kindred subjects, and three 

 years later, after the death of Huschke, he took the newly-reorganised 

 Chair of Anatomy, with which he continued to combine the teaching 

 of Zoology, until, in 1862, he handed the latter over to Hackel, whom 

 he had advised to come to the quiet Thuririgian seat of learning and 

 research. The friendship between these two great men became intimate 

 and lasting. 



Jena was then fast becoming a famous centre of medical and 

 biological sciences. A considerable number of the professorial staff 



