Editing Karl Ernst von Baer (section)

==Legacy==

A statue honouring him can be found on [[Toome Hill]] in Tartu, as well as at [[Lasila|Lasila manor]], Estonia, and at the [[Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences|Zoological Museum in St Petersburg]], Russia.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} In Tartu, there is also located Baer House which also functions as [[Baer Museum]].<ref name="Visitestonia.com">{{cite web |title=Baer House in Tartu, Estonia |url=https://www.visitestonia.com/en/baer-house-in-tartu |website=Visitestonia.com |access-date=8 January 2021 |language=en |archive-date=10 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110095232/https://www.visitestonia.com/en/baer-house-in-tartu |url-status=live }}</ref>

Before the Estonian conversion to the euro, the [[2 krooni|2-kroon]] bank note bore his portrait. [[Taymyr Gulf|Baer Island]] in the Kara Sea was named after Karl Ernst von Baer for his important contributions to the research of arctic meteorology between 1830 and 1840.<ref>[http://www.meteohistory.org/2004polling_preprints/docs/abstracts/tammiksaar_abstract.pdf Meteo History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209142456/http://www.meteohistory.org/2004polling_preprints/docs/abstracts/tammiksaar_abstract.pdf |date=9 February 2012 }}, 2004.</ref> A duck, [[Baer's pochard]], was also named after him.
[[File:KarlErnstVonBaer.jpg|thumb|Statue of Karl Ernst von Baer on [[Toome Hill]], [[Tartu]]: As a tradition, students wash the statue's head with champagne every [[Walpurgis Night]].<ref>[http://www.postimees.ee/180207/esileht/ak/245420.php Kõik algab munast] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120906104706/http://www.postimees.ee/180207/esileht/ak/245420.php |date=6 September 2012 }}</ref>]]
[[File:Baer Edle von Huthorn wappen.jpg|thumb|Coat of arms of the {{ill|Baer (noble family)|lt=Baer Edle von Huthorn family|et|Baer (Eestimaa aadlisuguvõsa)}} of 1749, in the [[Baltic Coat of arms book]] by [[Carl Arvid von Klingspor]] in 1882<ref name="Klingspor1882">{{cite book|author=Carl Arvid von Klingspor|title=Baltisches Wappenbuch|url=https://personen.digitale-sammlungen.de/baltlex/Blatt_bsb00000445,00111.html?prozent=|access-date=15 April 2019|year=1882|publisher=Stockholm|isbn=978-0-543-98710-5|pages=111}}</ref>]]