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OMALIUS

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 99 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OMALIUS D'HALLOY,
JEAN
  BAPTISTE JULIEN D' (17831875), Belgian geologist, was born on the 16th of
February
  1783 at Liege, and educated firstly in that city and afterwards in Paris. While a youth he became interested in
geology
 , and being of independent means he was able to devote his energies to
geological
  researches. As early as 18o8 he communicated to the
Journal
  des mines a
paper
  entitled Essai sur la geologie du Nord de la France. He became maire of Skeuvre in 1807,
governor
  of the province of Namur in 1815, and from 1848 occupied a place in the Belgian senate. He was an active member of the Belgian
Academy
  of Sciences from 1816, and served three times as president. He was likewise president of the
Geological
  Society of France in 1852. In Belgium and the Rhine provinces he was one of the geological pioneers in deter-mining the stratigraphy of the Carboniferous and other rocks. He studied also in detail the Tertiary deposits of the Paris Basin, and ascertained the extent of the Cretaceous and some of the older strata, which he for the first time clearly depicted on a map (1817). He was distinguished as an ethnologist, and when nearly ninety years of age he was chosen president of the Congress of Pre-historic Archaeology (Brussels, 1872). He died on the 15th of January 1875. His
chief
  works were: Memoires pour servir a la description geologique des Pays-Bas, de la France et de quelques contras voisines (1828); Elements de geologie (1831, 3rd ed. 1839); Abrege de geologie (1853, 7th ed. 1862); Des races humaines, ou elements d'ethnographie (5th ed., 1869).
Obituary by J. Gosselet,
Bull
 . soc. geol. de France, ser. 3, vol. vi. (1878).


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