On November 16, 1870, Baer died, after a short illness. 

 He was only three months short of his eighty-fifth birthday. 

 On the tenth anniversary of his death, the sculptor 

 A. M. Opekushin, who also did the well-known statue of Pushkin 

 in Moscow, designed a statue of Baer in Dorpat. 



In his speech, "Features of the Activities of K. M. Baer 

 and the Significance of His Work, "12 the academician (Filipp 

 Vasil'evich) Ovsiannikov said the following: 



The activities and work of this sceintific genius, 

 who died at the end of the past year in Dorpat, the 

 Member of Honor of the Academy K. M. Baer, . . . 

 must represent a great interest to all people of 

 intellect. We have lost in him not only a first- 

 class scientist, not only a great founder of 

 scientific embryology, but also a man of the 

 highest spiritual qualities, a man of deep interest 

 to our country. (p. 1) 



Highlighting the significance of Baer's most important 

 scientific work, Ovsiannikov in conclusion once again pointed 

 out his greatness as a scientist and his grandeur as a man 

 who had given all his life to the service of science, which 

 he had considered the source of prosperity to people. "He 

 lived not for himself, not for his family- he lived for science, 

 for his country, and for civilization. He was not of Russian 

 origin, yet it is rare to meet anyone who could have been as 

 faithful to Russia and her interests as he was" (p. 24) . 



A concise but pithy outline of Baer's scientific activities 

 was given by Dorpat University Professor E. Rosenberg, in a 

 speech at the dedication of Baer's statue. 13 



A discussion of Baer's work in embryology should begin with 

 his discovery of the mammalium. ovum, then turn to review his 

 greatest accomplishment, his UBER ENTWICKLUNGSGESCHICHTE , 

 and also his remaining embryological and teratological work. 

 At the conclusion, this account will consider his theoretical 

 reports related to problems of the history of development. 



12. Given at the beginning of 1877, published in 1879. 



13. E. Rosenberg, FESTREDE AM TAGE DER ENTHULLUNG DES 



IN DORPAT ERRICHTETEN DENKMALS FUR KARL ERNST 

 VON BAER. Dorpat, 1886, 33 pp. 



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