HORNES, MORITZ (1815-1868), Austrian palaeontologist, born on July 14, 1815, at Vienna, where he was educated. He became assistant in the Vienna mineralogical museum. He studied the Tertiary mollusca of the Vienna Basin and on the Triassic mollusca of Alpine regions. He died in Vienna on Nov. 4, 1868. His son, RUDOLF HORNES (1850-1912), professor of geology and palaeontology in the university of Graz, carried on researches among the Tertiary mollusca. His Elemente der Paldontologie (1884) was translated into French. Another son, MORITZ HORNES (1852-1917), keeper of the Natural History museum in Vienna, carried out archaeological investigations in Bosnia and Herce govina. Among his numerous works is Natur- and Urgeschichte des Menschen (2 vols., 1909).