Alexander Andreevich Keyserling
1815–91
Russian geologist, palaeontologist, and botanist. Accompanied Roderick Impey Murchison on his expedition to Russia in 1841. Official handling special missions in the Mining Department of the Russian government, 1841–50. Thereafter, travelled very little until 1860 when he made several journeys to the Pyrenees with Edouard de Verneuil.
Sources
DSB
Sarjeant 1980.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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