No. 385.] GEORGE BAUR’S LIFE AND WRITINGS. . 17 
tology to Professor v. Kupffer in the “Anatomisches Institut”’ 
of his alma mater. In March, 1884, he was called to New 
Haven to act as Professor Marsh’s assistant. During the same 
year he married Fraulein Auguste Wachter of Munich. Dr. 
Baur served Professor Marsh till Feb. 1, 1890, when, owing to 
certain difficulties with that gentleman, he resigned his position 
and left Yale University. During the summer of 1890 he 
collected fossil reptiles and fishes in western Kansas for Pro- 
fessor v. Zittel In the autumn he accepted: the position: of 
docent of comparative osteology and paleontology at Clark 
University, Worcester, Mass. The calm atmosphere of inves- 
tigation pervading that institution allayed the excitement into 
which he had worked himself on leaving Yale, and having en- 
tered on a position where free and independent investigation 
and publication were not merely tolerated but required, he began 
to plan several extensive works. One of these was an elaborate 
monograph of the North American tortoises, to be published 
by the National Museum as a companion volume to Cope’s 
Batrachia. Another was the investigation of the faunas and 
floras of oceanic islands. During the two years that Dr. Baur 
held his position at Clark he made great progress in both of 
these undertakings. In 1891, through the kindness of Mr. 
Salisbury of Worcester, Professor H. F. Osborn, and others in- 
terested in Clark University, he was enabled to fit out an expe- 
dition to the Galapagos Islands. Accompanied by Mr. C. F. 
Adams, he left in May and returned in October, after visit- 
ing nearly all the islands of the archipelago. The study of 
his extensive collections of the plants and animals of these 
islands has since occupied Dr. Baur and several zoologists 
and botanists both in this country and in Europe. The 
various reports, embodying descriptions of many new species, 
had been nearly all published, and just before his last illness 
Dr. Baur was planning a general work on the Galapagos 
Islands to include all the results of the expedition, together 
with an elaborate introductory chapter by himself. The 
valuable collections were recently purchased by the Tring 
Museum, which is undertaking a further study of the Gala- 
pagos fauna. 
