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See also:VERNEUIL, PHILLIPPE EDOUARD POULLETIER DE (180 1873) , See also:French palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 13th of See also:February 18o5. He was educated for the See also:law, but being of See also:independent means he was See also:free to follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures on See also:geology by See also:Elie de See also:Beaumont he was so attracted to the subject that he devoted himself assiduously to the study of See also:science. He spent several years in travel through various parts of See also:Europe, specially examining the geology of the See also:Crimea, on which he published an See also:essay (Hem. See also:Soc. Geol. See also:France, 1837). He next investigated the Devonian rocks and fossils of the Bas-Boulonnais; and in 1839 accompanied See also:Sedgwick and See also:Murchison in a study of the older Palaeozoic rocks of the Rhenish provinces and See also:Belgium, the palaeontological results being communicated to the See also:Geological Society of See also:London in See also:conjunction with D'See also:Archiac. When Murchison commenced his geological examination of the See also:Russian See also:empire, he requested de Verneuil to accompany him, and the researches of the latter were incorporated in the second See also:volume of The Geology of See also:Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains (1845). Subsequently de Verneuil paid a visit to the See also:United States to study the See also:history of the palaeozoic rocks in that See also:country, and the results were published in 1847 (See also:Bull. Soc. Geol. France). In later years he made numerous expeditions into See also:Spain, and his observations were embodied in See also:Carte geologique de l'Espagne et du See also:Portugal (1864), prepared in association with E. Collomb. In 1853 the See also:Wollaston See also:medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in s86o he was elected a See also:foreign member of the Royal Society. He died in Paris on the 29th of May 1873. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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