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Darwin Correspondence Project

Johann von Fischer

1850–1901

German zoologist. Lived in Gotha in the 1870s. Director of the zoological gardens in Dusseldorf, 1880–90. Director of the Montpellier Laboratory of Herpetology. Known as the father of modern terrarium culture.

Source

Rieck et al. 2001, pp. 444–5

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