FELIX

See also:

• FELIX KARRER (x825-19o3)

KARRER (x825-19o3)  , Austrian geologist, was born in Venice on the rrth of March 1825 . He was educated in Vienna, and served for a time in the war department, but he retired from the public service at the age of thirty-two, and devoted himself to science . He made especial studies of the Tertiary formations and fossils of the Vienna Basin, and investigated the geological relations of the thermal and other springs in that region . He became an authority on the foraminifera, on which subject he published numerous papers . He wrote also a little book entitled Der Boden der Hauptstadte Europas (1881) . He died in Vienna on the 19th of April 1903 .