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CHARLES RENE ZEILLER, whose death after a long illness was announced from Paris a few days ago, was a member of the Institute, chief engineer of mines, and professor of palæobotany in the National School of Mines. Despite the heavy claims of official duties, Zeiller devoted himself to palæobotanical investigation for nearly forty years. His earlier papers dealt with the Carboniferous and Permian plants of France, and the most important of these is the volume, published in 1878, on the plants of the French Coal Measures. The beautifully illustrated and scholarly monographs of Palæozoic floras, including those of Valenciennes, Comrnen-try (in collaboration with the late M. Renault), Autun, Brive, Creusot, and Blanzy, are models of scientific exposition and thorough workmanship. The two volumes on the Rhaetic flora of Tonkin, published in 1903, are the most important of his contributions to the botany of the earlier phase of the Mesozoic era. He also wrote several papers on later Mesozoic plants from different parts of the world, and added considerably to our knowledge of the Permo-Carboniferous floras of South Africa, Brazil, and India, both by his description of new types and his masterly treatment of the wider problems presented by the so-called Glossopteris flora of the southern hemisphere.
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SEWARD, A. Prof. C. R. Zeiller . Nature 96, 402 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096402a0
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