Robert Thomson Leiper He then entered the University of Glasgow to study medicine, at which he excelled, winning awards such as the John Hunter Medal and the Senior Arnott Prize in the field; graduating in 1904. From an early age Leiper was devoted to helminthology, the study of parasitic flatworms; while still an undergraduate, at the age of 21, he discovered an undocumented turbellarian worm in the Spatangoida sea urchin. This discovery lead to the publication of his first paper in "Nature" magazine. He later, in 1923, he founded the "Journal of Helminthology". In that same year on 3 May he was made
Creatures of the Cosmos here with animals is likely to appeal." Creatures of the Cosmos Creatures of the Cosmos is an anthology of fantasy and science fiction short stories for younger readers, edited by Catherine Crook de Camp. It was first published in hardcover by Westminster Press in 1977. It was the third such anthology assembled by de Camp, following the earlier "3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction" (1972) and "Tales Beyond Time" (1973), both of which she edited together with her husband L. Sprague de Camp. The book collects eight tales by various authors, in each of which "a strange beast, or