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Prof. Jaroslav Perner, professor of palæontology in the Charles University, Prague, has recently celebrated his seventieth birthday. He was born at Tynce on the Labe (Elbe) in 1869 and studied zoology and palæontology under Profs. Antonin Frič and Otokar Novák. He acted as assistant and later as keeper of the Geological Department at the National Museum, where his chief work was the arranging of Barrando's collections. After Barrande's death, Prof. Perner continued his great treatise “Systême Silurian du centre de la Bohême”. He described the Gastropoda of the formations included in the system, in three quarto volumes, during the years 1903–1911. Before this, Perner had published four volumes of his important treatise “Études sur les Graptolites de la Bohême”(in Czech) wherein he corrected the old and incorrect accounts of this fauna and laid the basis for the modern stratigraphic division of the Lower Palæozoic rocks of Bohemia. After the death of Prof. E. Koken of Tübingen in 1912, the Russian Imperial Academy of Science at St. Petersburg asked Mr. Perner to continue Koken's “Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs”. This Perner did during 1913–1925. In addition he has written a number of scientific articles on Phyllocarida, trilobites, fishes, conodonts and other fossils of the Palæozoic rocks of his country. These have appeared mainly in the Journal of the Bohemian Academy of Sciences or in the Centralblatt für Geologie. On the death of Prof. Filip Počta in 1928, Prof. Perner was appointed professor of palæontology in the Charles University, and had control of the palæontological collections at the Geological Institute (under Prof. Radim Kettner). He obtained part of the great Hanus collection, which contained much new and rare material. A new development of his subject has taken place since his appointment, which can be seen from the published work of his pupils. He is a corresponding member of the Palæontological Society of Washington, a member of the Bohemian Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary member of the Bohemian Royal Society of Sciences.
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Prof. Jaroslav Perner. Nature 144, 237 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144237c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144237c0