Lot 878:
Russia. Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876). AE Medal. Commemorating receiving his medical degree (1814) at the University of Dorpat. Obv. Head left. Rev. Inscription in eight lines. 149.16 g. 70 mm. About EF. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society, and the first president of the Russian Entomological Society, making him one of the most distinguished Baltic German scientists.