From Johann August Ephraim Goeze to Ernst Marcus: A Ramble Through the History of Early Tardigrade Research (1773 Until 1929)

Acknowledgements

I thank Prof Dr R Schill (Stuttgart, Germany) for the invitation to contribute to this book and for providing Doyère’s dissertation; Dr H Dastych (Hamburg, Germany), who made some rare literature and illustrations available to me; Prof KI Jönsson, PhD (Kristianstad, Sweden), for a copy of Broca’s report; Dr R Lacher, Museum of German Enlightenment (Halberstadt, Germany) for allowing the use of the portrait of JAE Goeze; the late Dr h.c. Eveline Marcus (1901–1990), who gave me the original of the drawing shown in Fig. 1.23 in the 1960s; Dr C Jared (São Paulo, Brazil), who supplied the contact to the Department of Zoology, Institute of Biosciences, University of São Paulo, and copied the portrait of Marcus (Fig. 1.1, bottom right), which is hanging in the amphitheatre of the University, as well as the photo of Ernst and Eveline Marcus (Fig. 1.19) from the archive of the University; Dr G Guex (Adlikon, Switzerland), who arranged the contact to the Zentralbibliothek Zürich to get the scan of Fig. 1.2 (bottom); Dr M Vakily (Collioure, France) for the help with some French texts; Prof Dr Diane Nelson (Johnson City, USA) for her careful search for linguistic imperfections; and, last but not least, all the institutions that make available old literature to the public.