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GAUDRY, JEAN ALBERT (1827-1908) , French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye on the 16th of September 1827, and was educated at the college, Stanislas: At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece
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African
geology of the island of Cyprus (Mem. Soc. Geol. de France, 1862). In 1853, while still in Cyprus, he was appointed assistant to A. d'Orbigny, who was the first to hold the chair of palaeontology in the museum of natural history at Paris. In 1872 he succeeded to this important post; in 1882 he was elected member of the Academy
International
Geology then held in Paris. He died on the 27th of November 1908. He is distinguished for his researches on fossil mammalia , and for the support which his studies have rendered to the theory of evolution
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