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CHARLES WACHSMUTH (1829-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 225 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:WACHSMUTH (1829-1896)  , See also:American palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Hanover, See also:Germany, on the 13th of See also:September 1829 . Educated as a lawyer in his native See also:city, he abandoned the profession on See also:account of See also:ill-See also:health, and in 1852 went to New See also:York as See also:agent for a See also:Hamburg See also:shipping See also:house . Two years later, for reasons of health, he removed to See also:Burlington, See also:Iowa, U.S.A., where he settled . Here he was attracted by the fossils, and especially the crinoids, of the Burlington See also:Limestone, and in a few years possessed a See also:fine collection . In 1864 he made acquaintance with L . See also:Agassiz, and in the following See also:year paid a visit to See also:Europe, where he studied the crinoids in the See also:British Museum and other famous collections . He now decided to devote all his energies to the elucidation of the crinoidea, and with See also:signal success . He made further extensive collections, and supplied specimens to the Agassiz museum at See also:Cambridge, U.S.A., and the British Museum . Becoming acquainted with See also:Frank See also:Springer (1848– ), a lawyer at Burlington, he stirred up his See also:enthusiasm in the subject, and together they continued the study of crinoids and published a See also:series of important papers . These include " See also:Discovery of the Ventral Structure of Taxocrinus and Haplocrinus, and Consequent Modifications in the See also:Classification of the Crinoidea " (Prot . Acad . Nat .

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Philadelphia, 1889); " The Perisomic Plates of the Crnnoids " (Ibid., 1891); and a monograph on " The See also:North American Crinoidea Camerata," published, after the See also:death of Wach.smuth, in the See also:Memoirs of the Museum of See also:Comparative See also:Zoology at Harvard (1897) . Of this last-named See also:work a detailed See also:review and See also:analysis was published by F . A . Bather, of the British Museum, in the Geol . Mag. for 1898-1899 . See also:Wachsmuth died on the 7th of See also:February 1896 . Obituary (with portrait) by F . A . Bather, Geol . Mag . (See also:April 1896) .

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