Ettingshausen, Constantin, Baron von

ETTINGSHAUSEN. CONSTANTIN. BARON VON (1826-1897), Austrian geologist and botanist, was born in Vienna on the i6th 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 pans of Europe, and on the fossil floras of Australia and New Zealand. He died at Graz on the ist of February 1897. PUBLICATIONS. — Die Farnkrauler der Jctztwelt stir Untersuthung uitj Bestimmunt der in den Formationen der Erdrinde eingeuUossenen Cberresle von vorweltlicHen Arten diescr Ordnung nach dem Fldcktn-Skeltl bearbeitet (1865); Physiograbhie der AfedicinatPflanien (1862): A Monograph of the Bntisn Eocene Flora (with J. Starkie Gardner), Palaeontograph. Soc. vol. i. (Filices, 1879i - •