See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• PAUL GERVAIS (1816-1879)

GERVAIS (1816-1879)  , See also:

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

French palaeontologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 26th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1816 at 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, where he obtained the diplomas of See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine, and in 1835 he began palaeontological See also:

• RESEARCH (O. Fr. recerche, from recercher, re- and cercer, mod. chercher, to search; Late Lat. circare, to go round in a circle, to explore)

research as assistant in the laboratory of See also:

• COMPARATIVE

comparative See also:

• ANATOMY
• ANATOMY (Gr. avaroyil, from ava-silo c', to cut up)

anatomy at the Museum of Natural See also:

• HISTORY

History . In 1841 he obtained the See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

• ZOOLOGY (from Gr. Nov, a living thing, and ?byos, theory)

zoology and comparative anatomy at the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

Faculty of Sciences in See also:

• MONTPELLIER

Montpellier, of which he was in 1856 appointed See also:

• DEAN (Lat. decanus, derived from the Gr. 8eaa, ten)
• DEAN, FOREST OF

dean . In 1848-1852 appeared his important See also:

• WORK

work Zoologie et paleontologie franoises, supplementary to the palaeontological publications of G . See also:

• CUVIER, GEORGES LEOPOLD CHRETIEN FREDERIC DAGOBERT, BARON (1769-1832)

Cuvier and H . M . D. de See also:

• BLAINVILLE
• BLAINVILLE, HENRI MARIE DUCROTAY DE (1777–1850)

Blainville; of this a second and greatly improved edition was issued in 1859 . In 1865 he accepted the professorship of zoology at the See also:

• SORBONNE

Sorbonne, vacant through the See also:

• DEATH

death of L . P . Gratiolet; this See also:

• POST

post he See also:

• LEFT

left in 1868 for the chair of comparative anatomy at the Paris museum of natural history, the anatomical collections of which were greatly enriched by his exertions . He died in Paris on the loth of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1879 . He also wrote Histoire naturelle See also:

• DES

des mammiferes (1853, &c.); Zoologie medicate (1859, with P . J. See also:

• VAN

van Beneden) ; Recherches sur l'anciennete de l'homme et la periode quaternaire, 19 pl .

(1867) ; Zoologie et paleontologie generates (1867) ; Osteographie des cetaces (1869, &c., with van Beneden) .