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ANTOINE FRANCOIS ALFRED LACROIX (1863— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 54 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE See also:FRANCOIS See also:ALFRED See also:LACROIX (1863— )  , See also:French mineralogist and geologist, was See also:born at See also:Macon, See also:Saone et See also:Loire, on the 4th of See also:February 1863 . He took the degree of D. es Sc. in See also:Paris, 1889 . In 1893 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:mineralogy at the Jardin See also:des Plantes, Paris, and in 1896 director of the mineralogical laboratory in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes . He paid especial See also:attention to minerals connected with volcanic phenomena and igneous rocks, to the effects of See also:metamorphism, and to See also:mineral See also:veins, in various parts of the See also:world, notably in the See also:Pyrenees . In his numerous contributions to scientific See also:journals he dealt with the mineralogy and See also:petrology of See also:Madagascar, and published an elaborate and exhaustive See also:volume on the eruptions in See also:Martinique, La Montagne Pelee et ses eruptions (1904) . He also issued an important See also:work entitled Mineralogie de la See also:France et de ses Colonies (1893—1898), and other See also:works in See also:conjunction with A . See also:Michel See also:Levy . He was elected member of the See also:Academic des sciences in 1904 .

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