KARL CHRISTOPH

VOGT (1817-1895)  , German naturalist and geologist, was born at Giessen on the 5th of July 1817 . In 1847 he became professor of zoology at Giessen, and in 1852 professor of geology and afterwards also of zoology at Geneva, where he died on the 5th of May 1895 . His earlier publications were on zoology; he dealt with the Amphibia (1839), Reptiles (184o), with Mollusca and Crustacea (1845) and more generally with the invertebrate fauna of the Mediterranean (1854) . His separate works include lm Gebirg and auf den Gletschern (1843); Physiologische Briefe (1845–46); Grundriss der Geologie (186o); and Lehrbuch der Geologie and Petrelactenkunde (2 vols., 1846–47 ; ed . 4, 1879) . An English version of his Lectures on Man: his Place in Creation and in the History of the Earth was published by the Anthropological Society of London in 1864 .