Obituaries

Abstract

SWEDISH zoology has sustained a serious loss in the death of Prof. Nils Johan Teodor Odhner, which occurred at Stockholm on Oct. 29, 1928. Prof. Odhner was born at Lund in 1879. Graduating at the University of Uppsala, he became lecturer in zoology at that University. In 1914 he was nominated as professor of zoology in the University of Oslo (Norway), and four years later he became Intendant of the department of invertebrates in the State Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. Prof. Odhner's zoological work consists principally of systematic and faunistic papers on the Trematoda, upon which group of animals he had been for many years a leading authority, He also devoted some time to the study of certain groups of Crustacea. His activities were not, however, confined to zoological research. His wide social interests and energetic contribution to the intellectual life of his country are manifested by the various official positions which he occupied—as a delegate to the League of Nations, president of the Sweden-Finland Foundation, and vice-secretary of the Swedish Academy of Science. As a speaker and writer he contributed much to the popularisation of his own branch of science.