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SIR SIDNEY HARMER, who received the Linnean Medal at the anniversary meeting of the Linnean Society on May 24, has had a long and distinguished career as a zoologist, and is still actively engaged in research. His published works deal for the most part with two widely different groups of animals, the Polyzoa and the Cetacea. His first paper (1884) described the anatomy of Loxosoma, and his most recent, issued this year, was the third instalment of his great report on the Polyzoa of the Siboga expedition. Perhaps his most outstanding contributions to science have been the demonstration of the chordate affinities of Cephalodiswis (published in an appendix to Mclntosh's Challenger Report, 1887), and his discovery of embryonic fission in cyclostom-atous Polyzoa (1893). While superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, Harmer, in collaboration with the late Sir Arthur Shipley, planned and edited the great “Cambridge Natural History”, the ten volumes of which appeared between 1896 and 1909.
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Sir Sidney Harmer, K.B.E., F.R.S. Nature 133, 824 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133824a0
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