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KOKSHAROV, NIKOLAI IVANOVICH VON (1818–1893) , See also:Russian mineralogist and See also:major-See also:general in the Russian See also:army, was See also:born at Ust-Kamenogork in See also:Tomsk, on the 5th of See also:December 1818 (o.s.). He was educated at the military school of mines in St See also:Petersburg. At the See also:age of twenty-two he was selected to accompany R. I. See also:Murchison and De See also:Verneuil, and afterwards De Keyserling, in their See also:geological survey of the Russian See also:Empire. Subsequently he devoted his See also:attention mainly to the study of See also:mineralogy and See also:mining, and was appointed director of the See also:Institute of Mines. In x865 he became director of the Imperial Mineralogical Society of St Petersburg. He contributed numerous papers on See also:euclase, See also:zircon, See also:epidote, orthite, See also:monazite and other mineralogical subjects to the St Petersburg and See also:Vienna See also:academies of See also:science, to Poggendorf's Annalcn, Leonhard and See also:Brown's Jahrbuch, &c. He also issued as See also:separate See also:works Malerialen zur Mineralogie Russlands (ro vols., 1853–1891), and Vorlesungen fiber Mineralogie (1865). He died in St Petersburg on the 3rd of See also:January 1893 (o.s.).

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