302 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. (VOL: XXXII. 
Prof. Rudolf Leuckart, one of the greatest teachers of zoology 
the world has known, died at Leipzig, Feb. 7, 1898. He was born 
at Helmstedt, Braunschweig, Oct. 7, 1823, and received his training 
in medicine and natural history at the University of Gottingen, where 
he was largely influenced by the anatomist Prof. Rudolf Wagner, 
and where, in 1847, in connection with Frey, he prepared the volume 
on invertebrates in Wagner’s Lehrbuch der Zootomie. In 1850 he was 
appointed professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the 
University of Giessen, and in 1869 he was called to the chair of 
zoology at Leipzig. Here his work was more in the line of a teacher 
than investigator, and no one in recent years has had more influence 
in training zoologists than he. Among his pupils are to be enumer- 
ated Andres, Apstein, Bedot, Berlepsch, Bogandow, Brandt, Biitschli, 
Burckhardt, Chun, Claus, Fowler, Hatschek, Haswell, Henking, 
Hurst, Ijima, Korschelt, Kossmann, Kraepelin, de Man, Monticelli, 
Reichenbach, Salensky, Seeliger, zur Strassen, Sturanay, Tichomirow, 
Uhlworm, Walther, Weismann, and Zacharias; while of Americans, 
either by birth or adoption, the following have been his students : 
Baur, Edwards, Fewkes, Gardiner, C. L. Herrick, Mark, Miinsterberg, 
Murbach, Parker, Patten, Pratt, Stiles, Tyler, Ward, Whitman, and 
R. R. Wright. For many years Leuckart compiled the record of the 
literature of the lower invertebrates in the Archiv fiir Naturgeschichte, 
while his writing upon parasites were numerous and valuable. Later 
in life, in connection with Chun, he established the elegant series of 
monographs under the name Zoologica, of which twenty-three numbers 
have so far been issued. Leuckart’s greatest generalization was the 
dismemberment of the Cuverian group of Radiata and the recogni- 
tion of the Coelenterata as a distinct group. 
The U. S. National Museum has received the collection of fossils 
and archeological specimens made by the late H. Harris, of Waynes- 
ville, Ohio. The fossils number some 13,000 specimens, mostly from 
the Lower Silurian (Niagara) of Ohio. 
Prof. Alfred C. Haddon is planning for a second trip to the regions 
of Torres Strait. Like his previous expedition, this will be primarily 
anthropological in character, but biological investigations will also be 
made. The party will consist of about half a dozen students, and 
will be fully equipped with the ordinary collecting apparatus and, in 
addition, with apparatus for psychological investigation and a kine- 
matograph for taking native dances, ceremonies, etc. The expedition 
will be gone more than a year. 
