Zoologist (1843-1923).
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (15 August 1843 in Glasgow – 25 March 1923 in Munich) was a Scottish-born, Swiss physician, zoologist, and vertebrate palaeontologist. Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany. He graduated in medicine at Basel in 1868 and became a physician in Florence, Italy. Like many early naturalists, he spent his free time studying fossil mammals. His first publication was on fossil primates in 1872. The Italian government supported him in 1877; he collected fossils from Calabria, Corsica, Sardinia,
Abbreviations: Fors.-Major
Occupations: zoologist, vertebrate paleontologist, scientific collector, zoological collector, physician, fossil collector, paleontologist, botanist, botanical collector
Citizenships: Switzerland
Dates: 1843-08-15T00:00:00Z – 1923-03-25T00:00:00Z
Birth place: Glasgow
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Authorship mentions: 2 plants, 0 fungi