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Obituary 
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PROFESSOR CARLO EMERY 
The eminent zoologist Professor Carlo Emery, best known 
to entomologists for his extensive and valuable contributions on 
ants has died at the age of seventy-eight years. During his early 
career he pursued a course in general medicine, but in 1872 
decided to specialize in ophthalmology. However, in 1878 he 
was appointed Professor of Zoology in the University of Cagliari 
where he remained for several years until 1881 when he went to 
the University of Bologna as Professor of Zoology a position 
which he filled for thirty-five years until his death. 
Among his earlier works, prior to 1869, are a text-book of 
general zoology and papers on fishes and molluscs, but the long 
period of fifty-six years (1869-1925) was devoted almost entirely 
to a study of ants, upon which he published very extensively. 
These many contributions have won him lasting fame in the 
annals of entomology. 
