described a number of species across taxa, including three new species of South American lizards. It was shortly after completing a monograph on the Chilean frogs in 1904 that he was diagnosed with pneumonia, leading to his death. A state holiday was announced the next day and his body was kept for public viewing and was visited by 10000 people. The 284-horse-drawn cortege was lined along its route by 30,000 people including schoolchildren and the entire Chilean parliament and cabinet were in attendance. He was buried in the Santiago Catholic Church where Philippi, as being Lutheran, was buried in a corner called the Patio de Disidentes. Legacy Philippi described more than 2500 new taxa of molluscs (both extant and fossil) in 40 genera and three families. A species of snake, Tropidodipsas philippii, is named in his honor. In 1897, botanist Carlos Luigi Spegazzini published Philippiella, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Argentina and Chile, belonging to the family Thymelaeaceae named after him. Museo de la Exploración Rudolph Amandus Philippi in Valdivia is named after him. Philippi's youngest son, Federico Philippi (1838–1910), was also a zoologist and botanist. Selected works See also :Category:Taxa named by Rodolfo Amando Philippi References External links Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. IV Fürstenberg, Paul (1906) Dr. Rudolph Amandus Philippi ; sein Leben und seine Werke - Scan on Internet Archive 1808 births 1904 deaths Scientists from Berlin German paleontologists 19th-century German zoologists German ornithologists 19th-century German botanists Scientists from Naples Chilean biologists Chilean naturalists Chilean ornithologists German emigrants to Chile Rodolfo Amando