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evolution) fell to Boguslaus Eeichert. This choice 

 was, as is now universally admitted, an incomprehen- 

 sible mistake. Instead of calling Carl Gegenbaur, or 

 Max Schultze, or some one else of youthful capacity 

 and vigour to the chair of morphology a science 

 which is the first foundation of zoology as well as of 

 medicine in Eeichert they selected an elderly school 

 anatomist cramped by strong old-fashioned notions, 

 who had done some good and useful specialist work, 

 but whose general views had developed all awry, and 

 who for the unexampled obscurity of his conceptions 

 and the confusion of his ideas, was outdone by none 

 save only Adolf Bastian. For twenty years this man 

 has represented animal morphology in the second 

 university of Germany, and in these twenty years 

 hardly any work worth mentioning has been done 

 there in the whole of this vast department neither 

 by the master nor by his pupils. We have only to 

 compare the many worthless anatomical productions 

 of Berlin during these two decades (for instance, the 

 recent confused work by Fritsch on the brain of 

 fishes) with the rich mine of invaluable work produced 

 during the preceding twenty years by Johannes Miiller 

 and his crowd of disciples. 



But, as if this were not enough, Eeichert took 

 advantage of his influential position to hinder as far 

 as possible all scientific study of morphology. For 



