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FELIX KARRER (x825-19o3)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 682 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FELIX See also:KARRER (x825-19o3)  , See also:Austrian geologist, was See also:born in See also:Venice on the rrth of See also:March 1825 . He was educated in See also:Vienna, and served for a See also:time in the See also:war See also:department, but he retired from the public service at the See also:age of See also:thirty-two, and devoted himself to See also:science . He made especial studies of the See also:Tertiary formations and fossils of the Vienna See also:Basin, and investigated the See also:geological relations of the thermal and other springs in that region . He became an authority on the See also:foraminifera, on which subject he published numerous papers . He wrote also a little See also:book entitled Der Boden der Hauptstadte Europas (1881) . He died in Vienna on the 19th of See also:April 1903 .

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