Abstract

HANS HEINRICH JUSTUS CARL ERNST BRAUNS, who died on Feb. 3 at his residence in Willowmore, Cape Province, at the age of seventy-two years, was born in Hannover, Germany, and spent his school-days in Mecklenburg, where he also entered the University, obtaining the Ph.D. degree. He studied medicine at several places, including Gottingen and Leipzig, from which latter university he obtained the M.D. degree. The honorary degree of D.Sc. was conferred upon him in 1928 by the University of Stellenbosch in recognition of his services to entomology in South Africa. He was a member of the Royal Society of South Africa, and shortly before his death was elected an honorary member of the Societe des Sciences Naturelles, Musee du Congo Beige, Tervueren.

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