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Memorizing, especially, was irksome to him, and in later years 
he often complained of the absurd pedagogical methods in 
vogue during his boyhood. Such time as he could spare from 
his lessons he passed in the woods about Hohenheim, and he has 
left a charming little description of himself and playmates act- 
ing Fenimore Cooper’s Mohicans, chasing one another through 
the woods with bows and tomahawks. There was only a 
“ Lateinschule”’ in Hohenheim, so George Baur’s parents de- 
cided to send him to a “Realgymnasium”’ at Stuttgart. He 
accordingly left Hohenheim and entered on his further studies 
during Easter, 1873. The“ Realgymnasium ” had an excellent 
director, Dr. Dillmann, a man of whom Dr. Baur always spoke 
with gratitude and affection. The final examinations in the 
Stuttgart “Gymnasium” appear to have been very severe, for Dr. 
Baur has often told me that the horror of these examinations 
kept recurring to him in his dreams years after he had grown 
to manhood. These dreadful examinations, however, were suc- 
cessfully passed, and he left the last class of the “Gymnasium” 
during the autumn of 1877. During the year following he 
returned to Hohenheim and entered the academy with the inten- 
tion of becoming a forester like his father. He became Pro- 
fessor Niess’s assistant in geology and paleontology and soon 
decided to change his plans and make these subjects his life’s 
work. In the fall of 1878 he entered the University of Munich. 
There he studied chemistry with Bayer, zoology with v. Siebold, 
and botany with Nägeli, till he had completed the summer 
semester of 1880. Thereupon he went to Leipzig, and dur- 
ing the winter of 1880-81 and the following summer semester 
studied comparative anatomy with Leuckart, geology with Cred- 
ner, and phylogenetics with Carus. During the autumn of 1881 
he again returned to Munich to complete his university work. 
He studied paleontology with v. Zittel, physiology with Voit, 
and histology and embryology with v. Kupffer. He defended 
his inaugural dissertation, entitled “The Tarsus of Birds and 
Dinosauria, a morphological study,” July 18, 1882. The guaestio 
inauguralis referred to Gegenbaur’s archipterygium. theory. 
Baur had now fully decided to follow a university career, and 
= the = det in this direction he became assistant in his- 
