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WILHELM JUNK, the well-known publisher of natural history books, will be seventy years of age on February 3. He was born in Prague on February 3, 1866, and comes from a family with strong leanings towards natural history, which had been living there for centuries. Since his youth he has combined successfully his work as an antiquary and publisher with his inherited inclination towards the descriptive side of natural science. The “Coleopterorum Catalogus” of which, since 1910, 145 parts have appeared; the “Lepidopterorum Catalogus” which, begun one year later, contains 70 parts up to the present; the “Fossilium Catalogus”, divided in two sectionsanimals and plantsof which 90 parts have appeared; the “Animalium Cavernarum Catalogus” accompanied by a number of valuable catalogues; then the standard work, unique in the province of biology, namely, the “Tabulae Biologicse”, containing tables of data dealing with biology which, through being continuously supplemented by the “Tabulae Biologicse Periodicae”, keep abreast with the latest development of science, are among the works he has published. The untiring services which Junk has rendered to scientific activities have been rewarded by the granting of honorary doctorates by the Universities of Frankfort-On-Main and Innsbruck, and he has been elected an honorary member of the Svenska Linne Sallskapet in Stockholm. Junk is continuing unabated his activities as a publisher, and is planning the publication of new works, among them the large edition of the “Hymenopterorum Catalogus” and the supplementary volumes to Oppenheimer's “Fermente”.
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Wilhelm Junk. Nature 137, 179 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137179a0
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