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Volume 4 Issue 21 | Archive Index

DR. WALTER AUFFENBERG, CURATOR EMERITUS OF THE FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, DIED ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2004, IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA.

Dr. Walter Auffenberg, Curator Emeritus Of The Florida Museum Of Natural 
History, Died On Saturday, January 17, 2004, In Gainesville, Florida. 
Dr. Walter Auffenberg, curator emeritus of the Florida Museum of Natural 
History, died on Saturday, January 17, 2004, in Gainesville, Florida.He was
75. Dr. Auffenberg  was widely known as an authority on fossil snakes and
turtles, gopher tortoisebiology, monitor lizards, and the fauna of south
Asia, particularly Pakistan and the Philippines. Unfortunately, Dr.
Auffenberg  had been severely disabled these last few years because of
complications from a stroke. His son Kurt, with the help of others, will
finish his "Herpetology of 
Pakistan." No word yet on funeral arrangements. (From notes from C. Kenneth
Dodd)

Posted 2004-01-25