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See also:STOLICZKA, See also:FERDINAND (1838-1874) , See also:Austrian palaeontologist, was See also:born at Hochwald, in See also:Moravia, in May 1838. He was educated at See also:Prague and at the university of See also:Vienna where he graduated Ph.D. He was encouraged to See also:work at See also:geology and palaeontology by See also:Professor E. See also:Suess and Dr M. Hoernes; and as See also:early as 1859 he communicated to the Vienna See also:Academy a description of some See also:freshwater See also:mollusca from the Cretaceous rocks of the See also:north-eastern See also:Alps. In 1861 he joined the Austrian See also:Geological Survey, and in the following See also:year he was appointed palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of See also:India. In See also:Calcutta the description of the Cretaceous fossils of See also:Southern India was placed in his hands, and the publication of this See also:great work which formed See also:part of the Palaeontologia indica, was commenced with the assistance of H. F. See also:Blanford in 1863 and completed in 1873. During the last ten years of his See also:life he published geological See also:memoirs on the western Himalayas and See also:Tibet, and numerous papers on all branches of See also:Indian See also:zoology, from mammals to See also:insects and See also:corals. In 1873 he was selected as naturalist and geologist to accompany a See also:mission despatched by the Indian See also:government to Yarkund and See also:Kashgar under Mr (afterwards See also:Sir See also:Douglas) Forsyth. His See also:health, which had been severely affected by his previous 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 work in India, proved unequal to the See also:strain, and he died on the 19th of See also:June 1874, at Shayok, in Ladak, while " returning loaded with the spoils and notes of nearly a year's See also:research in one of the least-known parts of Central See also:Asia."
Memoir (with bibliography) by V. See also:Ball, appended to Scientific Results of the second Yarkand Mission, 1886; Obituary by W. T. Blanford, Nature, See also:July 9, 1874.
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