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ARCHIAC, See also:ETIENNE JULES ADOLPHE DESMIER DE See also:SAINT See also:SIMON, VICOMTE D' (18o2–1868), See also:French geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Reims on the 24th of See also:September 1802. He was educated in the Military School of St Cyr, and served for nine years as a See also:cavalry officer until 183o, when he retired from the service. See also:Prior to this he had published an See also:historical See also:romance; but now See also:geology came to occupy his See also:chief See also:attention. In his earlier scientific See also:works, which date from 1835, he described the See also:Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of See also:France, See also:Belgium and See also:England, and dealt especially with the See also:distribution of fossils geographically and in sequence. Later on he investigated the Carboniferous, Devonian and See also:Silurian formations. His See also:great See also:work, Histoire See also:des progres de la geologic, 1834–1859, was published in 8 volumes at See also:Paris (1847–186o). In 1853 the See also:Wollaston See also:Medal of the See also:Geological Society was awarded to him. In the same See also:year, with Jules Haime (1824–1856), he published a monograph on the Nummulitic formation of See also:India. In 1857 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences, and in 1861 he was appointed See also:professor of palaeontology in the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Of later works his Paleontologic stratigraphique, in 3 vols. (1864–1865); his Geologic et paleontologie (1866); and his palaeontological contributions to de See also:Tchihatcheff's Asie mineure (1866), may be specially mentioned. He died on the 24th of See also:December 1868.

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Notice sur See also:les travaux scientifiques du vicomte d'Archiac, See also:par A. See also:Gaudry (Meulan, 1874) ; Extrait du See also:Bull. See also:Soc. Geol. de France, See also:ser. 3, t. ii. p. 230 (1874).

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