Festschrift zum 60 Geburtstage von Prof Dr Embrik Strand

Abstract

IT is customary in some countries, particularly in Germany, to honour a distinguished man of science on the anniversary of his sixtieth or sixty-fifth birthday by the issue of a volume containing papers written for the occasion by former pupils and other friends and admirers. In order to preserve the element of surprise for the Jubilar, it is understood that the matter is kept a secret. Dr. Embrik Strand, professor of zoology and director of the Systematic-Zoological Institute and of the Hydrobiological Station of the University of Lettland at Riga, evidently did not like the usual proceeding and, dispensing with secrecy, invited all and sundry to send manuscripts for a festive publication in commemoration of the anniversary of his sixtieth birthday.

Festschrift zum 60 Geburtstage von Prof. Dr. Embrik Strand

Enthaltend dem Jubilar gewidmete Arbeiten ausländischer Zoologen und Palaeontologen. Vol. 1. Pp. ii + 644 + 14 plates. Vol. 2. Pp. ii + 652 + 37 plates. Vol. 3. Pp. ii + 608 + 20 plates. Vol. 4. Pp. ii + 784 + 16 plates. Vol. 5. Pp. ii + 750 + 11 plates. (Riga: Prof. Dr. Embrik Strand, SistämatiskÄs Zooloǵijas InstitÅ«ts, Pasta kastÄ«te 802; London: H. E. Knowles, 1936–39.) 24s. 6d. each vol.