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CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON MEYER (18...

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 348 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON MEYER (18or-1869)  , German palaeontologist, was born at
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Frankfort-on-the-Main, on the 3rd of September 18oi . In 1832 he issued a
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work entitled Palaeologica, and in course of time he published a series of
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memoirs on various fossil organic remains:
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mollusca,
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crustacea, fishes and higher
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vertebrata . His more elaborate researches were those on the Carboniferous
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amphibia, the
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Permian reptiles, the Triassic amphibia and reptiles, and the reptiles of the Lithographic slates; and the results were embodied in his
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great work Zur
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Fauna der Vorwelt (1845-1860), profusely illustrated with plates
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drawn on stone by the author . He was associated with W . Dunker and K . A . Zittel in the publication of the Palaeontographica, which began in 1851 . He was awarded the Wollaston medal by the
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Geological Society of
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London in 1858 . He died on the 2nd of
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April 1869 .

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