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MORITZ HORNES (1815-1868)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 710 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORITZ
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HORNES (1815-1868)  ,
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Austrian palaeontologist, was
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born in
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Vienna on the 14th of
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July 1815 . He was educated in the university and graduated Ph.D . He then became assistant in the Vienna mineralogical museum . He was distinguished for his researches on the
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Tertiary
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mollusca of the Vienna
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Basin, and on the Triassic mollusca of Alpine regions . Most of his
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memoirs were published in the Jahrbuch der K . K. geol . Reichsanstall . In 1864 he introduced the
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term Neogene to include
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Miocene and
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Pliocene, as these formations are not always to be clearly separated: the
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fauna of the
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lower
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division being subtropical and gradually giving
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place in the upper division to Mediterranean forms . He died in Vienna on the 4th of
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November 1868 . His son Dr
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Rudolf
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Hornes (b. r85o),
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professor of
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geology and palaeontology in the university of
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Graz, has also carried on researches among the Tertiary mollusca, and is author of Elemente der Palaeontologie (1884) .

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