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Cornelius van der Horst

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Works lent him a diving suit. He amassed a large collection of specimens while in Curaçao and these specimens were studied by over twenty specialists and resulted in many papers. van der Horst wrote a travelogue detailing the sites where he collected his specimens and later he published a list of the corals with notes on their morphology. At the same time he was editing papers on the
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to conduct research into the marine fauna, he had studies so many coral skeletons that he wanted to examine the living organisms. He stayed at the old Quarantine Station on the island and studies the fauna using a box with a glass bottom but his studies were much facilitated when the Chief of Public
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with his students and gradually a small marine biological station was created there, which van der Horst helped create with the cooperation of Portuguese colonial authorities in Mozambique. He was instrumental in organising research into the fossil reptiles and mammals of South Africa; and connected
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or Enteropneusta, a group of animals about which he was to publish a series of publications. In his research on acorn worms he demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the literature, as well as a clear understanding of the complex anatomy and morphology of this group, he soon became recognised as one
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In South Africa, van der Horst continued his research in the field of systematic zoology, publishing many article on acorn worms, corals and new and remarkable fish from South Africa, as well as some work on mammal systematics. At this time he was beginning to gather materials to conduct research
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Van der Horst's early research concentrated on the anatomy of the nervous system of fishes and he published papers on this topic, at the same time he grew interested in corals and published a monograph on the
85:. In 1925 Van der Horst was appointed Deputy Director of this Netherlands Central Institute for Brain Research and in 1928 he moved to South Africa where he took up a post as senior lecturer in zoology at the 206:, their work being important in clarifying the systematics of these mammals. The visit to Curaçao had stimulated a lifelong interest in marine biology and when in South Africa he conducted expeditions to 212: 532: 379: 223: 77:("The motor nuclei and orbits in the brain of the fish. Its taxonomic value and neurobiotactic meaning "). The research for this thesis was carried out at the 450: 227: 174:(Classes and orders of the Animal Kingdom, scientifically represented in words and pictures") and contributed a chapter on spinal nerves to the 552: 347:"A taxonomic revision of the family Harrimaniidae (Hemichordata: Enteropneusta) with descriptions of seven species from the eastern Pacific" 73:
at the University's Zoological Museum and in 1917 he became the principal assistant for general Zoology. In 1916 he published his thesis
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De motorische kernen en banen in de hersenen der visschen. Hare taxonomische waarde en neurobiotactische beteekenis
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Following his trip to Curaçao, van der Horst continued to research brain anatomy for a few months under
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Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild
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in Johannesburg. in 1932 he was promoted to professor in zoology at this University.
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Deland, C., Cameron, C.B., Bullock, T.H., Rao, K.P. and Ritter, W.E. (2010).
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where he was appointed assistant in the Botany Department under Professor Dr
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of the leading authorities on the Enteropneusta, eventually having a genus,
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of mammals. Between 1940 and 1946 he published a series of articles with
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in both the Netherlands and South Africa. As an undergraduate he studied
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of a new species of goby which was subsequently named after him,
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ad HOC Newsletter ‘Historie van de Oceanografie Club’ Issue 12
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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on embryology on the group of African mammals now known as
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Godfried W.N.M. van Moorsel; Floris P. Bennema (2015).
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Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara (29 May 2018).
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Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
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in an investigation into the anatomy of the brain of
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Cameron, C.B., Deland, C. and Bullock, T.H. (2010).
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Index

Cornelius Jan van der Horst
Nieuwer-Amstel
Johannesburg
biologist
marine biology
embryology
botany
zoology
University of Amsterdam
Hugo de Vries
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber
Netherlands Central Institute for Brain Research
C. U. Ariëns Kappers
University of the Witwatersrand
Fungiidae
Agariciidae
Eupsammiidae
Siboga Expedition
Percy Sladen Expedition
Linnean Society
Curaçao
acorn worms
type
Elacatinus horsti
Charles Judson Herrick
University of Chicago
Stockholm
Nils Holmgren
Neoceratodus
Heinrich Georg Bronn

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