FAUJAS DE  See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

SAINT-FOND, See also:

• BARTHELEMY
• BARTHELEMY, ANATOLE
• BARTHELEMY, AUGUSTE MARSEILLE (1796–1867)
• BARTHELEMY, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830)
• BARTHELEMY, JEAN JACQUES (1716–1795)

BARTHELEMY (1741-1819), See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French geologist and traveller, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Montelimart on the 17th of May 1741 . He was educated at the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits' See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College at See also:

• LYONS
• LYONS (Fr. Lyon)
• LYONS, COUNCILS OF
• LYONS, EDMUND LYONS, BARON (1790-1858)
• LYONS, RICHARD BICKERTON PEMELL LYONS, 1ST EARL (1817–1887)

Lyons; afterwards he,went to See also:

• GRENOBLE

Grenoble, applied himself to the study of See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, and was admitted See also:

• ADVOCATE (Lat. advocatus, from advocare, to summon, especially in law to call in the aid of a counsel or witness, and so generally to summon to one's assistance)

advocate to the See also:

• PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament . He See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose to be See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the See also:

• SENESCHAL (the O. Fr. form, mod. senechal, of the Low Lat. senescalcus, a word of Teutonic origin, meaning " old or senior servant," Goth. sini- old; cf. Lat. senex and stalks, servant; Du Cange's derivation from seneste, flock, herd, must be rejected)

seneschal's See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court (1765), a See also:

• POST

post which he honourably filled, but the duties of which became irksome, as he had See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed a love of nature and his favourite relaxation was found in visits to the See also:

• ALPS

Alps . There.he began to study the forms, structure, See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition and super-position of rocks . In 1775 he discovered in the Velay a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich See also:

• DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit of pozzuolana, which in due course was worked by the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . In 1776 he put himself in communication with See also:

• BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, COMTE DE (1707-1788)

Buffon, who was not slow to perceive the value of his labours . Invited by Buffon to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, he quitted the law, and was appointed by See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVI. assistant naturalist to the museum, to which See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office was added some years later (1785, 1788) that of royal See also:

• COMMISSIONER

commissioner for mines . One of the most important of his See also:

• WORKS

works was the Recherches sur See also:

• LES

les volcans eteints du Vivarais et du Velay, which appeared in 1778 . In this See also:

• WORK

work, rich in facts and observations, he developed his theory of the origin of volcanoes . In his capacity of commissioner for mines Faujas travelled in almost all the countries of See also:

• EUROPE

Europe, everywhere devoting See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to the nature and constituents of the rocks . It was he who first recognized the volcanic nature of the basaltic columns of the See also:

• CAVE (Lat. cavea, from caves, hollow)
• CAVE, EDWARD (1691–1754)
• CAVE, WILLIAM (1637–1713)

cave of Fingal (See also:

• STAFFA (Norse for staff, column, or pillar island)

Staffa), although the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island was visited in 1772 by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

Banks, who remarked that the See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone " is a coarse See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of Basaltes, very much resembling the Giants' See also:

• CAUSEWAY

Causeway in See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland " (See also:

• PENNANT, THOMAS (1726-1798)

Pennant's Tour in See also:

• SCOTLAND
• SCOTLAND, CHURCH OF
• SCOTLAND, EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF

Scotland and Voyage to the See also:

• HEBRIDES, THE, or WESTERN ISLES

Hebrides) . Faujas's Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides (1797) is full of See also:

• INTEREST

interest—containing anecdotes of Sir Joseph Banks and Dr See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Whitehurst, and an amusing See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of " The See also:

• DINNER

Dinner of an See also:

• ACADEMIC

Academic See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club " (the Royal Society), and has been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English (2 vols., 1799) .

Having been nominated in 1793 See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor at the Jardin See also:

• DES

des Plantes, he held this post till he was nearly eighty years of See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, retiring in 1818 to his See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

estate of Saint-Fond in See also:

• DAUPHINE

Dauphine . Faujas took a warm interest in the See also:

• BALLOON

balloon experiments of the See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers Montgolfier, and published a very See also:

• COMPLETE

complete Description des experiences de la See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine aerostatique de MM . Montgolfier, &c . (1783, 1784) . He contributed many scientific See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs to the Annales and the Memoires of the museum of natural See also:

• HISTORY

history . Among his See also:

• SEPARATE

separate works, in addition to those already named are—Histoire naturelle de la See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province de Dauphine (1781 . 1782); Mineralogie des volcans (1784); and Essai de geologie (1803-1809) . Faujas died on the 18th of See also:

• JULY

July 1819 .