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PROF. A. P. PAVLOV, professor of geology and one the oldest members of the University of Moscow and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died recently in Telz, Germany. Born in 1854, after completing his studies in the University of Moscow, where he took his degree in 1878, he was appointed a teacher in a secondary school in Tver. Two years later he was invited to become the Keeper of the Geological Department in the University of Moscow, and since 1886 he has been professor of geology and palæontology. In 1916 he was elected an ordinary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He attained widespread fame by his researches of the Mesozoic and Quaternary deposits of the Volga region and Central Russia, and by his classical works on the fauna of the Mesozoic period.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 124, 520 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124520b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/124520b0