CHRISTIAN ERICH

See also:

• HERMANN, JOHANN GOTTFRIED JAKOB (1772–1848)
• HERMANN, KARL FRIEDRICH (1804–1855)

HERMANN VON

See also:

• CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON MEYER (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

MEYER (18or-1869)  , German palaeontologist, was born at Frankfort-on-the-Main, on the 3rd of September 18oi . In 1832 he issued a work entitled Palaeologica, and in course of time he published a series of memoirs on various fossil organic remains: mollusca, crustacea, fishes and higher vertebrata . His more elaborate researches were those on the Carboniferous amphibia, the Permian reptiles, the Triassic amphibia and reptiles, and the reptiles of the Lithographic slates; and the results were embodied in his great work Zur Fauna der Vorwelt (1845-1860), profusely illustrated with plates 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 Geological Society of London in 1858 . He died on the 2nd of April 1869 .