Article Nº 1754 Scientist or naturalist Vol. II · p. 224
Heer (Dr Osvaldo)
Original title: Heer (Dr. Osvaldo)
Oswald Heer was a Swiss botanist and palaeontologist who stayed in Madeira in 1850–51 and wrote on fossil plants of São Jorge and on tree growth on the island.
A Swiss botanist and palaeontologist who stayed in Madeira from the winter of 1850 to the spring of 1851. Works: Remarques sur la manière de végéter des arbres de l'Europe et des Etats Unis transportés à Madère (Bot. Zeitung 1853); Ueber die fossilen Pflanzen von St. George in Madeira (Zurich, 1855); and Der Renton-Garten in Funchal (Gartenflora Deutschlands und der Schweiz). He died in Lausanne in 1883.
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- Osvaldo Heer d. 1883
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