> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 557](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120688) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/13056-1) LSID 13056-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70211) QID Q70211 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### 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.