JEAN

See also:

• ALBERT
• ALBERT (1490'1545)
• ALBERT (149o-1568)
• ALBERT (1522–1557)
• ALBERT (FRANCIS CHARLES AUGUSTUS ALBERT EMMANUEL) (1819—1861)
• ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT)
• ALBERT, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS
• ALBERT, MADAME (c. 2805—2846)

ALBERT

See also:

• JEAN ALBERT GAUDRY (1827-1908)

GAUDRY (1827-1908)  , French geologist and palaeontologist, was born at St Germain-en-Laye on the 16th of September 1827, and was educated at the college, Stanislas: At the age of twenty-five he made explorations in Cyprus and Greece, residing in the latter country from 18J5 to 1860 . He then investigated the rich deposit of fossil vertebrata at Pikermi and brought to light a remarkable mammalian fauna, Miocene in age, and intermediate in its forms between European, Asiatic and African types . He also published an account of the geology of the island of Cyprus (Mem . Soc . Geol. de France, 1862) . In 1853, while still in Cyprus, he was appointed assistant to A. d'Orbigny, who was the first to hold the chair of palaeontology in the museum of natural history at Paris . In 1872 he succeeded to this important post; in 1882 he was elected member of the Academy of Sciences; and in 190o he presided over the meetings of the eighth International Congress of Geology then held in Paris . He died on the 27th of November 1908 . He is distinguished for his researches on fossil mammalia, and for the support which his studies have rendered to the theory of evolution .