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GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879)

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GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879)

GERVAIS, See also:
PAUL
PAUL (PAULUS)
PAUL (1816-1879) , See also:

French palaeontologist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 26th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1816 at See also:

Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of See also:

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and of See also:

MEDICINE

medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological See also:

RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research as assistant in the laboratory of See also:

COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

anatomy at the Museum of Natural See also:

HISTORY

History. In 1841 he obtained the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology and comparative anatomy at the See also:

FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

Faculty of Sciences in See also:

MONTPELLIER

Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed See also:

dean. In 1848-1852 appeared his important See also:

WORK

work Zoologie et paleontologie franoises, supplementary to the palaeontological publications of G. See also:

CUVIER, GEORGES LEOPOLD CHRETIEN FREDERIC DAGOBERT, BARON (1769-1832)

Cuvier and H. M. D. de See also:

Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the See also:

SORBONNE

Sorbonne, vacant through the See also:

DEATH

death of L. P. Gratiolet; this See also:

POST

post he See also:

LEFT

left in 1868 for the chair of comparative anatomy at the Paris museum of natural history, the anatomical collections of which were greatly enriched by his exertions. He died in Paris on the loth of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1879. He also wrote Histoire naturelle See also:

DES

des mammiferes (1853, &c.); Zoologie medicate (1859, with P. J. See also:

VAN

van Beneden) ; Recherches sur l'anciennete de l'homme et la periode quaternaire, 19 pl.

(1867) ; Zoologie et paleontologie generates (1867) ; Osteographie des cetaces (1869, &c., with van Beneden).

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