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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 KARRER (x825-19o3)  ,
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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
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thirty-two, and devoted himself to science . He made especial studies of the
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Tertiary formations and fossils of the Vienna Basin, and investigated the
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geological relations of the thermal and other springs in that region . He became an authority on the
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foraminifera, on which subject he published numerous papers . He wrote also a little
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book entitled Der Boden der Hauptstadte Europas (1881) . He died in Vienna on the 19th of
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April 1903 .

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