Carus, Julius

VICTOR, an eminent zoölogist, was born at Leipzig, Aug. 25, 1823. He studied surgery and medicine at Leipzig, later at Würzburg and Freiburg, and in 1849 was appointed keeper of the museum of comparative anatomy at Oxford. He returned to Leipzig in 1851 and accepted the chair of Comparative Anatomy there in 1852. His books are numerous and valuable. The best known of them are System der Their i schen Morpho logie (1853); Handbuch der Zoologie; . Casas Grand as, or Casas de Monte zum a, (Geog.) A town of Chihuahua, Mexico, so named from the striking ruins of ancient buildings found in its vicinity. These casas grandes, or great houses, are built of adobe, their walls, as now standing, being from 5 to 20 feet high. The largest building had a length of 800 and a width of 200 feet, and po e ed numerous courts, rooms and closets. There is reason to believe that it was several stories in height. Nothing is known of the history of these edifices. Others like them are found near the Gila, Salinas and Colorado rivers. The buildings at C. G. seem to indicate a former population of 20,000 to 30,000.