Obituary notices

Abstract

Hans Gadow was born in Pomerania on March 8, 1855, his father being the Inspector of the Prussian Royal Forests. He was educated at Frankfurt, Berlin, Jena and Heidelburg, coming under the influence of Ernst Häckel and Carl Gegenbaur; the conceptions and methods of these two zoologists are evident in his earlier work, and indeed persisted throughout his life. In 1880, he became an assistant in the Zoological Department of the British Museum, one of several men who, coming from foreign countries into the service of the museum about that time, subsequently attained distinction and influenced zoology in Britain.