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OMALIUS D'HALLOY, See also:

JEAN See also:BAPTISTE See also:JULIEN D' (1783–1875), Belgian geologist, was See also:born on the 16th of See also:February 1783 at See also:Liege, and educated firstly in that See also:city and afterwards in See also:Paris. While a youth he became interested in See also:geology, and being of See also:independent means he was able to devote his energies to See also:geological researches. As See also:early as 18o8 he communicated to the See also:Journal See also:des mines a See also:paper entitled Essai sur la geologie du See also:Nord de la See also:France. He became maire of Skeuvre in 1807, See also:governor of the See also:province of See also:Namur in 1815, and from 1848 occupied a See also:place in the Belgian See also:senate. He was an active member of the Belgian See also:Academy of Sciences from 1816, and served three times as See also:president. He was likewise president of the Geological Society of France in 1852. In See also:Belgium and the See also:Rhine provinces he was one of the geological pioneers in deter-See also:mining the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous and other rocks. He studied also in detail the See also:Tertiary deposits of the Paris See also:Basin, and ascertained the extent of the Cretaceous and some of the older strata, which he for the first See also:time clearly depicted on a See also:map (1817). He was distinguished as an ethnologist, and when nearly ninety years of See also:age he was chosen president of the See also:Congress of Pre-historic See also:Archaeology (See also:Brussels, 1872). He died on the 15th of See also:January 1875. His See also:chief See also:works were: Memoires pour servir a la description geologique des Pays-Bas, de la France et de quelques contras voisines (1828); Elements de geologie (1831, 3rd ed. 1839); Abrege de geologie (1853, 7th ed.

1862); Des races humaines, ou elements d'ethnographie (5th ed., 1869). Obituary by J. Gosselet, See also:

Bull. See also:soc. geol. de France, See also:ser. 3, vol. vi. (1878).

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