Eduard Desor (1811-1882): obituary

"Eduard Desor: Lebensbild eines Naturforschers". Author's holograph MS. printer's proof-sheet. Produced in Geneva.

1882

1 volume 24 ff. folio. 27 × 211/2 cm. Unbound. Written on the rectos only.

Purchased 1932.

Eduard Desor [1811-1882], eminent Swiss geologist, was a pupil and later secretary to Agassiz in 1837, and became 'Geographer of the Congress' in the U.S.A. He left for Europe in 1852 and in 1859 was professor of geology at Geneva, and wrote extensively on Alpine geology.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).