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NOTICES on the life of Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann, by David Starr Jordan and Fcrriandus Payne, in Science, vol. 65, No. 1691, give good accounts of the work of this eminent ichthyologist, able teacher, and indefatigable explorer, who died on April 24 last. A student under Prof. Starr Jordan, he succeeded him in 1891 as professor of zoology in Indiana University, and in 1908 was made dean. For some years he was curator of fishes in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, and in 1895 he established a fresh-water biological station in Northern Indiana, of which he was director up to a few years before his death. One of his most important works is on the blind cave fishes of North America, and for the purpose of collecting material for this study he made expeditions to the cave regions of Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, and Cuba, and for the detailed exploration of the fish fauna of the Amazon and other Brazilian rivers he made four trips to South America, besides sending students on other expeditions. In all, 195 new genera, containing about 600 species, were defined by Eigenmann and his colleagues, and his technical papers number upwards of 170. It is an interesting fact that Dr. Eigenmann entered the university as a student in Latin, but most fortunately it was not too late to change when in his second year he discovered that his tastes were zoological rather than classical.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 120, 340 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120340a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120340a0