Obituaries

Abstract

A CORRESPONDENT, “G. P. B.,” writes:—“All zoologists who have ever worked at the ‘Stazione Zoologica’ of Naples will be grieved to read of the death of Prof. Eisig, whose obituary notice by Prof. R. Dohrn appears in the Zürich Zeitung of February 19. Hugo Eisig was born in Baden in 1847. When Anton Dohrn, aged thirty-one, decided to sink his whole fortune in the building of the Naples station, knowing that it would suffice to rear up only the ground story, his friend Kleinenberg went with him; Eisig, seven years their junior, offered himself also, and was accepted. Many years of great difficulty followed, and then many years of very great success. Through all Eisig continued the career which he had chosen as part and parcel of the Stazione Zoologica. His contribution to zoology is not to be measured by his published work, even though it includes his great ‘Monograph of the Capitellidæ.’ To all of us who worked at Naples he was a friend, loyal, sympathetic, unselfish, and gentle. In 1907 Eisig retired on a pension from his administrative post in the Zoological Station, but continued his own zoological work. Two years later Anton Dohrn died, and was succeeded by his able son, but in 1915 Prof. Reinhard Dohrn, with Eisig and others of the staff, had to leave Naples for the hospitality of the Zürich Zoological Museum and Swiss territory. There Eisig died on February 10 last from the after-effects of an operation which appeared to have been successful. He died in exile from his home of forty-four years, but in the warm memory of many friends all over the world.”