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GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879) , French palaeontologist, was born on the 26th of September 1816 at Paris, where he obtained the diplomas of doctor
medicine
comparative
zoology and comparative
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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
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). End of Article: GERVAIS, PAUL (1816-1879) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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