Ferdinand Stoliczka
✓ Source-basedrisingCzech traveller, geologist and paleontologist (1838-1874)
ScientistsLived 1838 to 1874 · aged 35
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Ferdinand Stoliczka was a Moravian palaeontologist who worked in India on paleontology, geology and various aspects of zoology, including ornithology, malacology, and herpetology. He died of high altitude sickness in Murgo during an expedition across the Himalayas.
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The Geological Survey of India in 1870. Standing: F Stoliczka, R B Foote, W Theobald, FR Mallet, V Ball, W. Waagen, WL Willson
Sitting: A Tween, W King, T Oldham, HB Medlicott, CA Hackett
Stoliczka discovered the Mudh formation when he visited Mud village, Spiti in the 1860s
Paleontologia Indica (1871)
Report by Frederic Moore on the Lepidoptera collected on the mission
Dr Stoliczka (left) and Captain Biddulph (right) in Kashgar
Memorial at the Moravian cemetery at Leh
Inscription on the memorial at LehScientists born in the 1830s 6
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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1838 to 1874 · aged 35
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