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THIS volume of memoirs deals with a full and varied life. Prof. Forel became a psychiatrist by profession and simultaneously was one of the leading European myrmeologists. A narrow and isolated early upbringing led him to take refuge in Nature around him and, before he was eight years old, he had become interested in ant life. Forel was destined for medicine, and he seems to have prosecuted his studies in this subject side by side with those on ants. Failure to pass the examinations at Zurich led to his transference to Vienna. Here he graduated and secured his first post, which was under Prof. Gudden in Munich.
Out of my Life and Work
Auguste Forel. Translated by Bernard Miall. Pp. 352 + 8 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1937.) 16s. net.
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Out of my Life and Work. Nature 141, 267 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141267b0
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