See also:

• CONSTANT, BENJAMIN (1845-1902)

CONSTANT See also:

• PREVOST, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1697–1763)
• CONSTANT PREVOST (1787-1856)
• PREVOST, EUGENE MARCEL (1862- )
• PREVOST, PIERRE (1751-1839)

PREVOST (1787-1856)  , See also:

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

French geologist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 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 on the 4th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1787, and was son of 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 See also:

• PREVOST, ANTOINE FRANCOIS (1697–1763)
• PREVOST, CONSTANT (1787-1856)
• PREVOST, EUGENE MARCEL (1862- )
• PREVOST, PIERRE (1751-1839)

Prevost, See also:

• RECEIVER

receiver of the rentes of that See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city . He was educated at the Central See also:

• SCHOOLS

Schools, where, inspired by the lectures of G . See also:

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

Cuvier, See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre See also:

• BRONGNIART, ADOLPHE THEODORE (1801–1876)
• BRONGNIART, ALEXANDRE (1770-1847)

Brongniart and A . Dumeril, he determined to devote himself to natural See also:

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

science . He took his degree in Letters and Sciences in 1811, and for a See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time pursued the study of See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine and See also:

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

anatomy . Mainly through the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of Brongniart he turned his See also:

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

attention to See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology, and during the years 1816-1819 made a See also:

• SPECIAL

special study of the See also:

• VIENNA (Ger. Wien; Lat. Vindobona)
• VIENNA, CONGRESS OF (1814-1815)

Vienna See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

Basin where he pointed out for the first time the presence of See also:

• TERTIARY

Tertiary strata like those of the Paris Basin, but including a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of later date . His next See also:

• WORK

work (1821) was an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on the geology of parts of See also:

• NORMANDY

Normandy, with special reference to the Secondary strata, which he compared with those of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . From 1821-1829 he was See also:

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

professor of geology at the See also:

• ATHENAEUM

Athenaeum at Paris, and he took a leading See also:

• PART

part with Ami See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

Bone, G . P . See also:

• DESHAYES, GERARD PAUL (1795–1875)

Deshayes and Jules See also:

• DESNOYERS, JULES PIERRE FRANCOIS STANISLAS (1800-1887)

Desnoyers in the See also:

• FOUNDING (from Lat. fundere, to pour)

founding of the See also:

• GEOLOGICAL

Geological Society of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France (183o) . In 1831 he became assistant professor and after-wards honorary professor of geology to 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 . Having studied the volcanoes of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy and See also:

• AUVERGNE

Auvergne, he opposed the views of von See also:

• BUCH
• BUCH, CHRISTIAN LEOPOLD VON, BARON (1774-1853)

Buch regarding craters of See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation, maintaining that the cones were due to the material successively errnpted .

Like See also:

• LYELL, SIR CHARLES (1797-1875)

Lyell he advocated a study of the causes or forces now in See also:

• ACTION

action in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to illustrate the past . One of his more important See also:

• MEMOIRS

memoirs was De la Chronologie See also:

• DES

des terrains et du synchronisme des formations (1845) . He died in Paris on the 17th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1856 . Memoir with portrait, by J . Gosselet, See also:

• ANN

Ann. See also:

• SOC

soc. geol. du See also:

• NORD

nord, tome See also:

• XXV

xxv . 1896 .