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GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 907 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879) ,
French
  palaeontologist, was born on the 26th of September 1816 at Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of
doctor
  of science and of
medicine
 , and in 1835 he began palaeontological research as assistant in the laboratory of
comparative
  anatomy at the Museum of Natural History. In 1841 he obtained the chair of
zoology
  and
comparative
  anatomy at the Faculty of Sciences in Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed dean. In 1848-1852 appeared his important
work
  Zoologie et paleontologie franoises, supplementary to the palaeontological publications of G. Cuvier and H. M. D. de
Blainville
 ; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859. In 1865 he accepted the professorship of
zoology
  at the Sorbonne, vacant through the death of L. P. Gratiolet; this post he 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
February
  1879.
He also wrote Histoire naturelle des mammiferes (1853, &c.); Zoologie medicate (1859, with P. J. 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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