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### Author
Cotta, Carl Bernhard \[von\] (1808-1879), German geologist, professor at the mining academy of Freiberg (Sachsen).
**Abbreviated name**: *Cotta* \[standard form in IPNI: *Cotta*\]
#### Collections
Berlin.
#### Bibliography and biography
ADB 47: 538 (inaccurate); Barnhart 1: 385; BM 1: 391, 6: 235; CSP 2: 64-65, 6: 628, 7: 444, 12: 172; KR p. 132; NDB 3: 381; NI 417; Quenstedt p. 92.
- Ratzeburg, Forstwiss. Lex. 114-115 (note 2). 1874.
- Stelzner, Neues J. Mineralogie 1879, 15 p. (bibl.)
- Sorby, Quart. J. geol. Soc. London, Proc. 36: 40-42. 1880.
- Embacher, Lexikon Reisen 85. 1882.
- Wagenbreth, Freiberger Forschungsheft D36. 1965 (bibl.)
- Wagenbreth, Ber. geol. Ges. DDR, Sonderheft 3, 1965, 172 p.
- Prescher, DSB 3: 433-435. 1971.
#### Eponymy
*Cottaea* Goeppert (1836). – *Note*: *Cottea* Kunth (1829) is dedicated to Johann Georg Cotta von Cottendorf (1796-1863), German science patron, and not to the German botanist Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844), as is suggested by Pfeiffer, Nom. Bot. 1: 894. 1873.
### Publications
##### n.1252. Die Dendrolithen
**Title**
*Die Dendrolithen* in Beziehung auf ihren inneren Bau... Mit zwanzig Steindrucktafeln. Dresden, Leipzig (Arnold) 1832. Qu.
**Abbreviated title**: *Dendrolithen*.
**Notes**
*Ed.1*: early 1832 (p. iv: Jan 1832; see rev. Flora), p. \[i\]-ix, \[1\]-89, 20 liths., nos. A (frontisp., col.), *B, 1-18. Copy*: U.
*Ed. 2*: Leipzig 1850, p. i-ix, 1-89, *pl. 1-18.*
*Ref*.: BM 1: 391; Jackson p. 176; NI 417.
- Anon., Flora 2: 97-112, 119-128, 137-149. 1832 (rev.)
- Ward, Ann. Rep. U.S. geol. Surv. 5: 410-411. 1885.