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LACROIX, ANTOINE FRANCOIS ALFRED (1863 )

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 54 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LACROIX, ANTOINE FRANCOIS ALFRED (1863 ) ,
French
  mineralogist and geologist, was born at
Macon
 , Saone et Loire, on the 4th of
February
  1863. He took the degree of D. es Sc. in Paris, 1889. In 1893 he was appointed professor of
mineralogy
  at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, and in 1896 director of the mineralogical laboratory in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes. He paid especial attention to minerals connected with volcanic phenomena and igneous rocks, to the effects of metamorphism, and to
mineral
  veins, in various parts of the world, notably in the
Pyrenees
 . In his numerous contributions to scientific
journals
  he dealt with the
mineralogy
  and
petrology
  of Madagascar, and published an elaborate and exhaustive volume on the eruptions in Martinique, La Montagne Pelee et ses eruptions (1904). He also issued an important
work
  entitled Mineralogie de la
France
  et de ses Colonies (18931898), and other works in conjunction with A. Michel Levy. He was elected member of the Academic des sciences in 1904.


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