Charles Barrois
Charles Eugene Barrois
Life
Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the Jesuit College of St Joseph in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet.[1]
His first comprehensive work was Recherches sur le terrain crétacé supérieur de l’Angleterre et de l'Irlande, published in the Mémoires de la societé geologique du Nord in 1876. In this essay the palaeontological zones in the Chalk and Upper Greensand of
In other memoirs, among which may be mentioned those on the
In 1881 he was awarded the
In 1907, he created the Musée Houiller (Carboniferous Museum) alongside the Museum Gosselet in Lille.Barrois's work covered the entire field of geology, and his work was rigorous and based on detailed observation. His fame spread internationally, even before he was recognized in his own country, and he was honored by many European and American academies. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the
He died at St Genevieve-en-Caux and is buried in the East Cemetery in Lille.[5]
Family
He was the brother of zoologist Jules Henri Barrois.
References
- ^ S2CID 161622617.
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Barrois, Charles". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 438–439.
- ^ "Homepage".
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
- ^ "Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Biographical Index Part One" (PDF). p. 62. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-19. Retrieved 2015-03-30.
