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THE Danes have long been prominent in marine fisheries investigations, and the names of Carl Georg Johan Petersen, Johs. Schmidt, Th. Mortensen, and Commander Drechsel are familiar in this respect. The latter passed away last year, and now the busy life of Dr. C. G. J. Petersen is ended. A native of Denmark, his earlier years of study were at Aarkus, on the east coast of Jutland, and by and by, after graduation, following his natural bent, he entered as a junior helper in the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, in 1881, acted as assistant curator, 1883-89, meanwhile aiding in the reorganisation of the Danish fisheries investigations. So far back as 1882-83 he had been on board the fishery inspectionvessel Hauch with Prof. Japetus Steenstrup and Commander C. F. Drechsel, and afterwards with Prof. Chr. Liitken; his researches, along with those of Cleve, Posselt, Meinert, Levinsen, and Traustedt, being published in 1893 in a 4to vol. with an atlas in Fol. under the title “Det videnskabelige Udbytte af Kanonbaaden Hauch's Togter.” In continuation of the work on the fisheries carried on by H. Kroyer, Chr. Liitken, and G. Winther, he was by and by (1888) officially appointed by the Government under the Department of Agriculture. Seeing that his investigations could not be fully carried out on board the inspection-vessel, he, by the aid of Commander Drechsel and Prof. Liitken, got an old transport vessel transformed into a laboratory, which thus had the advantage of easy transference to the scattered fjords and islets of the Danish shores. A small open motor boat and a dinghy were also attached to the station.
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M'INTOSH, W. Prof. C. G. J. Petersen. Nature 121, 955–956 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121955a0
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