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DR. RICHARD HANITSCH died at Oxford on August 11 last. Born at Grossenstein, Germany, in 1860, he graduated Ph.D. in the University of Jena. During 1887-1895 he held the post of demonstrator in zoology in the University of Liverpool. During this period he took an active interest in marine biology and became an authority on the sponges, a group on which he wrote a number of papers and reports dealing with English, Irish and some of the foreign species. He also contributed, for a few years, the sections dealing with the literature on sponges and Protozoa to the Zoological Record, ending in about 1894. Dr. Hanitsch also contributed short papers on other zoological subjects including the pineal eye of Anguis and the structure of Limax. The two last-named were printed in the Liverpool Biological Society's Transactions.
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IMMS, A. Dr. R. Hanitsch. Nature 146, 360 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146360a0
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