Abhandlung, eingesandt auf die Preisfrage: "Man suche durch genaue Untersuchungen darzuthun, ob die Steinkohlenlager aus Pflanzen entstanden sind, welche an den Stellen, wo jene gefunden werden, wuchsen [...]".
by Goeppert, Heinrich Robert (1800-1884).:
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Leiden [und Düsseldorf]: A. Arnz, 1848. . 4to. Pp. [2],xviii,[2,blank],300, 33 figs. (few coloured by hand) on 22 lithogr. plates (incl. 6 fold, ), 1 fold. plan. Orig. printed boards. A very good copy. - "Eine im Jahre 1846 mit der goldenen Medaille und einer Prämie von 150 Gulden gekrönte Preisschrift.": - "Goeppert's entry in the Haarlem Academy's prize competition concerning th question whether coal seams are authochthonous or allochthonous was awarded the double prize". (Dict. Sci. Biogr. V, p. 441). The author was one of the founders of paleobotany, "the principal central European paleobotanist of the mid-nineteenth century [and] must be ranked with such outstanding figures as Brongniart and Seward (Andrews p. 294). "Seine Monographien gehören zum Besten, was über fossile Pflanzen geschrieben wurde" (Zittel, p. 82.).
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- Abhandlung, eingesandt auf die Preisfrage: "Man suche durch genaue Untersuchungen darzuthun, ob die Steinkohlenlager aus Pflanzen entstanden sind, welche an den Stellen, wo jene gefunden werden, wuchsen [...]".
- Author
- Goeppert, Heinrich Robert (1800-1884).:
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- Hardcover
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- Leiden [und Düsseldorf]: A. Arnz, 1848.
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