EDITORIAL. 
Georg Baur.— In the recent death of Prof. Georg Baur, of Chi- 
cago University, science in America has met with a severe loss. In 
fact, since the death of Professor Cope there has been no one in our 
country who had a more extensive and a more accurate knowledge 
of vertebrates, living and fossil, than he. He came to America 
thoroughly trained by those masters, Leuckart and Zittel, and from 
his coming here until his death his work was continuous and important. 
The amount of work which he accomplished in his early years in 
this country is known only to few, but these few are fully aware that 
his contributions, especially to the study of fossil reptiles, were both 
numerous and of the highest importance. He was in reality the 
victim of that system against which this journal has always protested 
— he was not allowed to publish his discoveries over his own name. 
When the release came, Baur at once stepped into prominence, and 
had time spared him, he would soon have stood, in popular esteem, 
among the world’s first paleontologists. 
For many years Baur has been a firm friend of this journal. 
Many have been the contributions from his pen, but their value is to 
be estimated rather by their character than by their number. With 
the reorganization of the American Naturalist he was invited to 
assume charge of the department of vertebrate paleontology, and we 
felt that with his aid we Would be able to maintain the high standard 
in that department which the journal had under Professor Cope. 
Continued ill-health, however, interfered with that active participation 
which he had expected to give. It was hoped that his return last 
spring to his home in Munich might bring renewed vigor, but he did 
not rally. The American Naturalist mourns its loss. 
We are indebted for the following account to his brother-in-law, 
Ernst L. C. Schulz, of Munich, Bavaria : — 
Born Jan. 4, 1859, at Weisswasser, Bohemia, where for a time 
his father was professor age mathematics, Georg Baur passed his 
youth in Hessen and Wiirtt . He went through the Gymnasium 
at Stuttgart, and in 1878 entered the University at Munich, taking 
up especially the study of paleontology, geology, zodlogy, and miner- 
alogy. In 1880 he went to Leipzig, where he studied under Credner 
and Leuckart. Two years later he returned to Munich, and there 
“made” his Doctor of Philosophy. He remained in Munich from 
1882 to 1884 as the assistant of Professor von Kupffer, to whom he 
