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THE eminent geologist and palæontologist, Prof. Wilhelm von Branca, died in Munich on Mar. 12, aged eighty-three years. Descended from an old Lombardy family, he was born in Potsdam on Sept. 9,1844, and graduated as Ph.D. at Heidelberg in 1876. He began his academic career as docent in the University of Berlin in 1881, and his first professorship of geology and palaeontology was in Königsberg in 1887. He succeeded Quenstedt in Tübingen in 1890, and was next for a short time at the Agricultural High School at Hohenheim. iary. Finally, he succeeded Dames in Berlin in 1899, and remained there until his retirement in 1917.
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Prof. Wilhelm Von Branca. Nature 121, 801 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121801b0
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