Carus, JULIUS VICTOR

Carus, JULIUS VICTOR, an eminent zoologist, born at Leipzig, 25th August 1823. He studied medicine and surgery at Leipzig, further at Würzburg and Freiburg, and in 1849 went to Oxford as keeper of the museum of comparative anatomy. In 1851 he returned to Leipzig, and in 1853 was placed in the chair of Comparative Anatomy there. In the summers of 1873-74 Carus lectured at Edinburgh for Wyville Thomson during his absence on the Challenger expedition. His books are numerous and all valuable. Most are elaborate and masterly monographs devoted to particular departments of zoology; the more general books are System der thierischen Morphologie (1853), Handbuch der Zoologie (with Gerstäcker, 1863 et seq.), Geschichte der Zoologie (1872), Prodromus Faunæ Mediterraneæ (1884 et seq.).