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IN these two well-printed and handy volumes we have the more important of the contributions made to science by the late Prof. Rütimeyer, which could be reproduced without costly illustrations. By the kindly care of Leopold Rütimeyer and H. G. Stehlin, we have these as an “In Memoriam ” tribute, the crowning stone of which is the very interesting series of notes by Prof. Rütimeyer himself of the chief incidents of his life. In a work of this nature, there is left but little room for criticism, and we will serve the reader's purpose best by a brief notice of the contents of the volumes. In the stray memories of his scientific life we learn that, born in February 1825, his early days were spent in the country; his life was in the open air, wandering over field and meadow, in woods, and up the hill-tops. Educated at home, he records his happiness at having escaped the mischiefs and sorrows of a public school. When sixteen years old, falling under the influence of Bernhardt Studer, his studies took the direction of the natural sciences, and his future career was marked out. In these “Memories” many are the interesting facts recorded in a busy life. As an author he began with a “Memoir on the Nummulitic Region of the Bernese Alps,” which was published in 1848, and we have on record a long list, published from year to year, with but few exceptions, until 1895, when in June he put his initials to the “Memories,” passing out of the world, though not beyond memory, on the 25th of the following November. Ever fond of nature, his latter years were rendered happier by winter sojourns in the sunny south of Europe.
L. Rütimeyer. Gesammelte Kleine Schriften allgemeinen Inhalts aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaft. Nebst einer autobiographischen Skizze.
Edited by H. G. Stehlin. 2 vols. 8vo. Pp. iv + 400 and 455. With a portrait and woodcuts. (Basel: Georg et Cie, 1898.)
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L Rütimeyer Gesammelte Kleine Schriften allgemeinen Inhalts aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaft Nebst einer autobiographischen Skizze. Nature 57, 411 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057411a0
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