In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908) (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from In Memoriam Theodore Duka (1825-1908) IT was at the very close of 1910 that the Natural Science Class of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences honoured me with an invitation to deliver the In Memoriam lecture on its late Honorary Member, surgeon-colonel Dr. Theodore Duka. If I hesitated at first to accept this distinction, it was not because the request came from a class different from the one to which I owe my own membership. There is a common bond uniting historical with natural sciences, and my labours of recent years have drawn me into at least one branch of research, geography, which comes within the range of interests of that class. Nor would the fact of my being merely an External Member of the Academy have justified hesitation, for whatever my designation might be, I could never feel myself a stranger in the noble abode of learning, in the immediate vicinity of which I was born, and with which many of the happiest recollections of my early youth are indissolubly associated. The only cause of my hesita tion was the doubt whether, burdened with the many heavy tasks which the scientific results of years of successful ex ploration in Central Asia had thrown upon my shoulders, I should be able to find time for doing full justice on such a solemn occasion to the memory of one in whom I had revered not merely the scholar, soldier, and man of truly noble character, but also the kindest paternal friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.