“Of all my books, my favorite is the one I received last Christmas. There is no tome like the present.”
Karl Alfred von ZittelDied 5 Jan 1904 at age 64 (born 25 Sep 1839).(knight) German paleontologist who proved that the Sahara had not been under water during the Pleistocene Ice Age. A distinguished authority on his subjects and their history, he was a pioneer of evolutionary paleontology and was widely recognized as the leading teacher of paleontology in the 19th century. His five-volume Handbuch der Paläonologie (1876-93) was arguably his greatest service to science, and it remains one of the most comprehensive and trustworthy paleontological reference books. |
