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BARON VON (1826-1897), Austrian geologist and botanist, was born in Vienna on the 16th of June 1826. He graduated as a doctor of medicine in Vienna, and became in 1854 professor of botany and natural history at the medical and surgical military academy in that city. In 1871 he was chosen professor of botany at Graz, a position which he occupied until the close of his life. He was distinguished for his researches on the Tertiary floras of various parts of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand. He died at Graz on the 1st of February 1897.

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. - Die Farnkrauter der Jetztwelt zur Untersuchung und Bestimmung der in den Formationen der Erdrinde eingeschlossenen Uberreste von vorweltlichen Arten dieser Ordnung nach dem Fldchen-Skelet bearbeitet (1865); Physiographie der MedicinalPflanzen (1862); A Monograph of the British Eocene Flora (with Starkie Gardner), Palaeontograph. Soc. vol. i. (Filices, 18 791882).