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IT is fitting that the autumn number (No. 3; 1931) of Copeia, a journal of cold-blooded vertebrates published by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, should have appeared as a special tribute to Leonhard Stejneger and his work. For Stejneger is to American cold-blooded vertebrates what G. A. Boulenger is on this side of the Atlantic. Endowed with great personal charm and a willingness to share his profound knowledge, to which the writer of this note has more than once been indebted, Stejneger is a man in whom great diversity of interests and talents has been combined. As Thomas Barbour in a tribute to his friend says, “Being an antiquarian, a classicist, a rarely accomplished linguist, and a naturalist in the widest sense, he possessed a foundation on which with good health and great industry he has built a mighty structure of rarely excellent work”. The anniversary number, with its many papers on reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, is a fitting monument to this native of Bergen and graduate of the University of Christiania, who since 1882 has been associated with the Smithsonian Institution and since 1911 has been its head curator of biology.
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Leonhard Stejneger, Antiquarian and Naturalist. Nature 129, 609 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129609a0
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