BERNHARD VON See also:

• COTTA
• BERNHARD VON COTTA (1808—1879)
• COTTA, GAIUS AURELIUS (c. 124—73 B.c.)

COTTA (1808—1879)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in a forester's See also:

• LODGE
• LODGE, EDMUND (1756-1839)
• LODGE, H
• LODGE, HENRY CABOT (1850– )
• LODGE, SIR OLIVER JOSEPH (1851– )
• LODGE, THOMAS (c. 1558–1625)

lodge near See also:

• EISENACH

Eisenach, on the 24th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 18o8 . He was educated at See also:

• FREIBERG, or FREYBERG

Freiberg and See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, and from 1842 to 1874 he held the professorship of See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology in the Bergakademie of Freiberg . See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

Botany at first attracted him, and he was one of the earliest to use the See also:

• MICROSCOPE (Gr. µucp6s, small, asenreiv, to %view)

microscope in determining the structure of fossil See also:

• PLANTS

plants . Later on he gave his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical geology, to the study of ore-deposits, of rocks and See also:

• METAMORPHISM (Gr. ise-rci, change of, and liop¢i, shape)

metamorphism; and he was regarded as an excellent teacher . His Rocks classified and described: a See also:

• TREATISE

Treatise on Lithology (translated by P . H . See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence, 1866) was the first comprehensive See also:

• WORK

work on the subject issued in the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, and it gave See also:

• GREAT

great impetus to the study of rocks in See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain . He died at Freiberg on the 14th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1879 .