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of merit, whose intercourse greatly contributed to the develop- 
ment of his mind. At the age of twenty he began his medical 
studies at the “ Friedrich Wilhelm Institut,” at Berlin. Here he 
was also employed by the brothers Schlagintweit, to assist them 
in classifying the rich botanical treasures which they had brought 
home from Central Asia. He did not, however, remain longer 
than five terms at the Friedrich Wilhelm Institute, as each term 
bound him to a year’s service as medical officer in the army. In 
his twenty-fourth year he graduated as Dodfor of Medicine, his 
inaugural dissertation being “ De Periostei Transplantationibus.” 
In preparing this thesis, physiological experimentation was 
necessary, and some of our modern zoophilists will doubtless be 
disposed to read the commination of Ernulphus over his grave if 
they learn that during the summer vacation his mother’s house 
was a perfedl hospital of dogs and rabbits which had undergone 
operations. His next work was a contribution to helminthology 
— the anatomy of the genus Enchytrseus, with a notice of the 
species occurring near Konigsberg. In this memoir, according 
to Professor Langlois, he proved himself an expert dissedtor, an 
acute observer, and an excellent microscopist. But we must 
hasten on, briefly noticing the remission of his five years military 
service — a special adt of royal favour, — his histological researches 
on the nervous system of the Mollusca, his appointment at the 
Zoological Museum at Greifswald, his obtaining the second 
degree of Dodtor of Philosophy, his journey to Naples, where he 
spent three months chiefly in the study of the Crustacea, and 
discovered seven new species. In 1869 he took part in the 
second German polar expedition, and underwent severe hardships 
by the wreck of the Hansa, when his colledtions, drawings, note- 
books, and instruments were lost. Here he appears to have 
suffered from serious nervous disease. On his recovery he 
undertook the arrangement of the colledtions made by Dr. Pansch, 
the naturalist on board the more fortunate companion-ship, the 
Germania. In 1872 he received the appointment of extraordinary 
Professor of Zoology at the University of Greifswalde. In June 
of the same year he undertook, in company with Dr. Liihder and 
Dr. Reichenow, his last and most brilliant journey to the Gold 
Coast, the Mountains of Camaroons, Fernando Po, the Gaboon, 
and the Ogowi. The expedition was most successful, and in 
1875, Buchholz returned to Greifswalde richly laden with treasures. 
In January, 1876, he was appointed to the ordinary Chair of 
Zoology at the University, and the Directorship of the Museum. 
But his end was near. His constitution, never apparently very 
strong, had suffered much from the climate of equatorial Africa. 
A violent cold developed into inflammation of the lungs, and on 
April 17th his short, but most honourable, career came to an end. 
We turn, now, to his African expedition. His observations on 
the marine fauna began even in the North Sea, and were con- 
tinued most of the way. The vessel sailed too swiftly to admit 
