Édouard de Verneuil
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Philippe Édouard Poulletier de Verneuil (13 February 1805 – 29 May 1873) was a French paleontologist.[1]
Life
He was born in Paris and educated in law, but being of independent means he was free to follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures on
When Murchison commenced his geological examination of the Russian empire, he requested de Verneuil to accompany him, and the researches of the latter were incorporated in the second volume of The Geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains (1845). Subsequently, de Verneuil paid a visit to the United States to study the history of the palaeozoic rocks in that country, and the results were published in 1847 (Bull. Soc. Geol. France). In later years he made numerous expeditions into Spain, and his observations were embodied in Carte geologique de l'Espagne et du Portugal (1864), prepared in association with Edouard Collomb. In 1853 the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in 1860 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society. He died in Paris.[2]
De Verneuil was President of the
The deformed
References
- ^ Géologues et paléontologues : de la passion à la profession pdf "Le cas d'Édouard de Verneuil (1805-1873) est tout autant révélateur de la façon dont peut naître la passion. Il se préparait à une carrière de magistrat lorsque.."
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- ^ Camborne School of Mines (15 January 2007). "Geology". CSM Virtual Museum. University of Exeter. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ Cornwall Wildlife Trust (2012). "Killas". Cornish Geology. Archived from the original on 14 January 2011. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
Attribution:
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Verneuil, Phillippe Édouard Poulletier de". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 1031. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Darwin Correspondence Online Database Record
Further reading
- Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased, in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London; vol. 23; 1874, pp. xviii–xx (Online version)
- Gaudant, Jean Géologues et paléontologues: de la passion à la profession. Paris: Transvalor Presses des Mines ISBN 978-2-35671-008-6; pp. 105–134
External links
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- Philippe Edouard POULLETIER de VERNEUIL (1805-1873). Online extract from Annales des Mines, Paris, with biography by Gabriel Auguste Daubrée