KARL EDUARD VON

EICHWALD (1795-1876)  , Russian geologist and physician, was born at Mitau in Courland on the 4th of July 1795 . He became doctor of medicine and professor of zoology in Kazan in 1823; four years later professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Vilna; in 1838 professor of zoology, mineralogy and medicine at St Petersburg; and finally professor of palaeontology in the institute of mines in that city . He travelled much in the Russian empire, and was a keen observer of its natural history and geology . He died at St Petersburg on the loth of November 1876 . His published works include Raise auf dem Caspischen Meere and in den Caucasus, 2 vols . (Stuttgart and Tubingen, 1834-1838) ; Die Urwelt Russ-lands (St Petersburg, 1840-1845); Lethaea Rossica, ou paleontologic de la Russie, 3 vols . (Stuttgart, 1852-1868), with Atlases .