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FERDINAND BROILL professor of palæontology and historical gedlegy in the University of Munich, died on April 30 aged seventy-two. He was a student of v. ZittftA Mad Rothpletz in Munich, visited the Penniamjc Texas in 1898 and there collected materials onfirW-icn, during the next ten years, he published a series of important papers on reptiles and amphibia. He then wrote on the Permian Brachiopods of Timor and on a variety of fossil reptiles. After the War of 1914-18, he became professor of palaeontology and historical geology in Munich and director of the Bavarian State Palaeontological Museum ; in this capacity he added very greatly to the collections, which became the most important in Continental Europe. Broili then worked on Pterodactyls and other reptiles from the Sohenhofen Slate, until, as his collection increased, he published many papers on the fauna of the Devonian Slates of Gemiinden. Later, in association with Schroeder, he wrote a long series of admirable papers on the vertebrates of the Karroo system of South Africa.
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WATSON, D. Prof. F. Broili. Nature 158, 16–17 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158016b0
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