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CHARLES BARROIS (1851– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 439 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES See also:BARROIS (1851– )  , See also:French geologist, was See also:born at See also:Lille on the 21st of See also:April 1851, and educated at the See also:college in that See also:town, where he studied See also:geology under Prof . Jules Gosselet and qualified as D. es Sc . To this See also:master he dedicated his first comprehensive See also:work, Recherches sur le terrain cretace superieur de l'Angleterre et de ['Mande, published in the Memoires de la societe geologique du See also:Nord in 1876 . In this See also:essay the palaeontological zones in the See also:Chalk and Upper See also:Greensand of See also:Britain were for the first See also:time marked out in detail, and the results of Dr See also:Barrois's See also:original researches have formed the basis of subsequent work, and have in all leading features been confirmed . In 1876 Dr Barrois was appointed a collaborateur to the French See also:Geological Survey„ and in 1877 See also:professor of geology in the university ' of Lille . In other See also:memoirs, among which may be mentioned those on the Cretaceous rocks of the See also:Ardennes and of the See also:Basin of See also:Oviedo, See also:Spain; on the (Devonian) Calcaire d'Erbray; on the Palaeozoic rocks of See also:Brittany and of See also:northern Spain; and on the granitic and metamorphic rocks of Brittany, Dr Barrois has proved himself an accomplished petrologist as well as palaeontologist and See also:field-geologist . In 1881 he was awarded the See also:Bigsby See also:medal, and in 1901 the See also:Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of See also:London . He was chosen member of the See also:Institute (See also:Academy of Sciences) in 1904 .

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