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See also:WACHSMUTH, See also:CHARLES (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. Sci., See also: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. Wachsmuth died on the 7th of See also:February 1896.
Obituary (with portrait) by F. A. Bather, Geol. Mag. (See also:April 1896).
End of Article: WACHSMUTH, CHARLES (1829-1896)
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