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See also:NEUMAYR, MELCHIOR (1845-1890) , See also:German palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Munich on the 24th of See also:October 1845, the son of Max von Neumayr, a Bavarian See also:Minister of See also:State. He was educated in the university of Munich, and completed his studiesat See also: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 under C. W. von See also:Gumbel he joined the See also:Austrian See also:geological survey in 1868. Four years later he returned to Heidelberg, but in 1873 he was appointed See also:professor of palaeontology in See also:Vienna, and occupied this See also:post until his See also:death on the 29th of See also:January 189o. His more detailed researches related to' the See also:Jurassic and Cretaceous See also:Ammonites and to the See also:Tertiary See also:freshwater See also:mollusca; and in these studies he sought to trace the descent of the See also:species. He dealt also with the zones of See also:climate during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and endeavoured to show that the See also:equatorial marine See also:fauna differed from that of the two temperate zones, and the latter from that of the See also:arctic See also:zone, much as the faunas of similar zones differ from each other in the See also:present See also:day; see his "Uber klimatische Zonen wahrend der See also:Jura and Kreidezeit" (Denkschr. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1883); he was author also of Erdgeschichte (2 vols., 1887); and See also:Die Stdmme See also:des Thierreiches (vol. 1 only, 1889).
Obituary by Dr W. T. See also:Blanford in Quart. fours. Geol. See also:Soc. (189o).
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