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MEER, OSWALD (1809–1883)

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MEER, See also:OSWALD (1809–1883) , Swiss geologist and naturalist, was See also:born at Nieder-Utzwyl in See also:Canton St Gallen on the 31st of See also:August 1809. He was educated as a clergyman and took See also:holy orders, and he also graduated as See also:doctor of See also:philosophy and See also:medicine. See also:Early in See also:life his See also:interest was aroused in See also:entomology, on which subject he acquired See also:special knowledge, and later he took up the study of See also:plants and became one of the pioneers in See also:palaeobotany, distinguished for his researches on the See also:Miocene See also:flora. In 1851 he became See also:professor of See also:botany in the university of See also:Zurich, and he directed his See also:attention to the See also:Tertiary plants and See also:insects of See also:Switzerland. For some See also:time he was director of the botanic See also:garden at Zurich. In 1863 (with W. See also:Pengelly, Phil. Trans., 1862) he investigated the plant-remains from the See also:lignite-deposits of Hovey Tracey in See also:Devonshire, regarding them as of Miocene See also:age; but they are now classed as See also:Eocene. Heer also reported on the Miocene flora of See also:Arctic regions, on the plants of the See also:Pleistocene lignites of Diirnten on See also:lake Zurich, and on the cereals of some of the lake-dwellings (See also:Die Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten., 1866). During a See also:great See also:part of his career he was hampered by slender means and See also:ill-See also:health, but his services to See also:science were acknowledged in 1873 when the See also:Geological Society of See also:London awarded to him the See also:Wollaston See also:medal. Dr Heer died at See also:Lausanne on the 27th of See also:September 1883. He published Flora Tertiaria Helvetiae (3 vols., 1855–1859); Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1865), and Flora fossilis Arctica (1868–1883).

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