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