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DR. FELIX ANTON DOHRN, 



For. Memb. R. S. 



Born December 29, 1840. Died September 2G, 1909. 



It is with deep regret we have to record the death of an old and 

 valued friend and fellow-worker, Dr. Anton Dohrn, Founder and 

 Director of the famous Zoological Station at Naples, an institution 

 for the study of marine organisms, the existence and maintenance of 

 which were largely due to his genius and energy, and upon whicli he 

 must have expended a considerable amount of his own private means. 

 Born at Stettin in 1840, son of the well-known entomologist Carl 

 August Dohrn, and brother of Dr. Heinrieh Dohrn, who devoted 

 himself to the study of malacology, Anton Dohrn was educated at 

 Konigsberg, Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, and paid especial attention to 

 invertebrate zoology, having at the age of 27 established himself as 

 a private teacher of zoology at Jena. 



As early as 1858-60 Anton Dohrn had published various short 

 treatises on the Hemiptera, and took his degree as a Doctor in science 

 in 1865 by a work on the anatomy of foreign Hemiptera, published 

 in 1866-8. During his residence at Jena, Dr. Anton Dohrn also paid 

 considerable attention to fossil insects, and published important papers 

 on them and upon other Arthropoda, particularly on the development 

 of Linndus 2)olyp]iemtis, etc. — 



"■^ Eugereon hoeklngi, eine neue Inseotenform aus dem Todtliegenden " [Palmonto- 



graphxca, vol. xiii, pp. 333-40, Taf.), 4to, Cassel, 1866. 

 '^ Eugereon boekingi und die Genealogie der Arthropodou " {Stett. entom. Zeit., 



Bd. xxviii, pp. 145-53, pi. i [xli]), 8vo, Stettin, 1867. 

 " Zur Keutniss der Insecten iu den Primarformatioaen " [Palceontographica, vol. xvi, 



pp. 129-34, Taf. viii), 4to, Cassel, 1867. 

 " Die embryonale Entwickeluug des Asellus aquaticus " [Zeitschr, Wissensch. Zool., 



xvii, 1867, xvii, pp. 221-77). 

 "Zur Erabrvologie und Morphologie des LimnJus pohjphemus''^ (Jenaisc/ieti Zeit- 



schriff, 'Bd. vi. Heft iv, p. 639), Jena, 1871. 



In 1870 he visited Naples and shortly afterwards founded the 

 Zoological Station, in which he received the aid of the leading- 

 zoologists in Germany and England, and later the powerful support 

 of the then Crown Prince of Germany, the Berlin Academy of 

 Sciences, the British Association, and afterwards by the German 

 Government itself. The lasting services rendered to Biological Science 

 by Dohrn through the establishment of the Naples Zoological Station 

 are well known. He dedicated all the best energies of his life to 

 this work, and had in these last years been energetically supported by 

 the German Emperor. 



As the Zoological Station became more and more widely known, 

 and the work carried on as a research laboratory for biological students 

 better understood, the greater became the number of visitors, and the 

 institution received considerable support from American as well as 

 from European Universities and men of science. 



In 1875 Dr. Dohrn published a work On the Origin of Vertebrate 

 Animals and On the Morphology of the Pantopoda of the Gulf of 



