MELCHIOR See also:

• MELCHIOR NEUMAYR (1845-1890)

NEUMAYR (1845-1890)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German palaeontologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• MUNICH (Ger. Munchen)

Munich on the 24th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1845, the son of Max von See also:

• NEUMAYR, MELCHIOR (1845-1890)

Neumayr, a Bavarian See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

Minister of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

State . He was educated in the university of Munich, and completed his studiesat See also:

• HEIDELBERG

Heidelberg, where he graduated Ph.D . After some experience in See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field-See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology under C . W. von See also:

• GUMBEL, KARL WILHELM VON, BARON (1823-1898)

Gumbel he joined the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

geological survey in 1868 . Four years later he returned to Heidelberg, but in 1873 he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of palaeontology in See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna, and occupied this See also:

• POST

post until his See also:

• DEATH

death on the 29th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 189o . His more detailed researches related to' the See also:

• JURASSIC

Jurassic and Cretaceous See also:

• AMMONITES

Ammonites and to the See also:

• TERTIARY

Tertiary See also:

• FRESHWATER

freshwater See also:

• MOLLUSCA

mollusca; and in these studies he sought to trace the descent of the See also:

• SPECIES

species . He dealt also with the zones of See also:

• CLIMATE

climate during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and endeavoured to show that the See also:

• EQUATORIAL

equatorial marine See also:

• FAUNA

fauna differed from that of the two temperate zones, and the latter from that of the See also:

• ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

arctic See also:

• ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone, much as the faunas of similar zones differ from each other in the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day; see his "Uber klimatische Zonen wahrend der See also:

• JURA
• JURA (" deer island ")

Jura and Kreidezeit" (Denkschr . K . Akad . Wiss . Wien, 1883); he was author also of Erdgeschichte (2 vols., 1887); and See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Stdmme See also:

• DES

des Thierreiches (vol . 1 only, 1889) .

Obituary by Dr W . T . See also:

• BLANFORD, WILLIAM THOMAS (1832-1905)

Blanford in Quart. fours . Geol . See also:

• SOC

Soc . (189o) .