Charles Barrois

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Bust of Barrois from the Musée d'histoire naturelle de Lille

Charles Eugene Barrois (born April 21, 1851 in Lille , † November 5, 1939 in Sainte-Genevieve-en-Caux , Département Seine-Maritime ) was a French geologist and paleontologist .

Live and act

Charles Eugene Barrois attended the Collège Saint-Joseph in Lille and then began to study geology with Jules Gosselet . In 1876 he became an employee of the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières . From 1877 Barrois was Professor of Geology at the University of Lille .

His scientific articles appeared almost exclusively in the publications of the Société géologique du Nord and dealt with stratigraphy and especially with the fauna of the Paleozoic .

In 1877 he became a member of the German Geological Society, in 1881 he received the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London . In 1901 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. Since 1898 Barrois was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In December 1897 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg ; In 1930 he became an honorary member of the academy. In 1904 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences , in 1908 of the National Academy of Sciences . In 1910 he was elected deputy chairman of the newly founded Geological Association . In 1912 he became a member of the Paleontological Society and in 1913 he became a Foreign Member of the Royal Society . In 1915 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1916 an honorary member ( Honorary Fellow ) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . In 1935 he became an honorary member of the Geological Association . V. awarded.

Fonts (selection)

  • Sur le Byssacanthus Gosseleti, Plagiostome du dévonien de l'Ardenne. In: Association française pour l'avancement des sciences. Comptes-rendus de la 3me session 1874. 1875 ( gallica2.bnf.fr digitized version).
  • Exposé de ses recherches sur le terrain crétacé supérieur de l'Angleterre et de l'Irlande. In: Mémoires de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 1, pp. 1-232, Lille 1876.
  • Note préliminaire sur le terrain silurien de l'ouest de la Bretagne. In: Annales de la Société géologique du Nord. Volume 4, pp. 38-57, Lille 1876.
  • Note on the terrain dévonien de la province de Léon (Éspagne). In: Association Française pour l'Avangement des Sciences, Congres du Havre, 1877. pp. 1-4, 1877.
  • Le marbre griotte des Pyrénées. In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 6, pp. 270-300, Lille, 1879.
  • Recherches sur le terrains anciens des Asturies et de la Galice. In: Mémoires de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 2, pp. 1-630, Lille 1882.
  • Les Glandes du pied et les pores aquifères chez les lamellibranches. Danel, Lille 1885.
  • Sur les faunes siluriennes de la Haute-Garonne. In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 10, pp. 151-169, Lille 1883.
  • Aperçu de la constitution géologique de la rade de Brest. In: Bulletin de la Société Géologique France. Volume 14, pp. 678-707, Paris 1886.
  • Sur la faune de Hont-de-Ver (Haute-Garonne). In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 12, pp. 124-144, Lille 1886.
  • Sur le calcaire à polypiers de Cabrières (Hérault). In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 13, pp. 74-97, Lille 1886.
  • Sur le calcaire dévonien de Chaudefonds (Maine-et Loire). In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 13, pp. 170-205, Lille 1886.
  • Faune du Calcaire d'Erbray (Loire Inférieure). In: Mémoires de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 3, pp. 1-348, Lille 1889.
  • Note sou l'Etage á Anarcestes lateseptatus dans l'Ule-et-Vilaine. In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Pp. 116-117, 1889.
  • Observations on the terrain dévonien de la Catalogne. In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 20, pp. 61-73, Lille 1892.
  • The relations des mers dévoniennes de Bretagne avec celles des Ardennes. In: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 27, pp. 231-239, Lille 1898.
  • Observations sur la faune des Schistes de Mondrepuits. In: Mémoires de la Société Géologique du Nord. Volume 6, pp. 65–225, Lille 1920 - with Pierre Pruvost and Georges Dubois.

literature

  • Charles Jacob: Charles Barrois. 1851-1939. In: Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Volume 5, No. 15, February 1947, pp. 287-293 JSTOR 769084 .
  • Charles Schuchert : Memorial to Charles Barrois. In: Proceedings of the Geological Society of America for 1941. 1942, pp. 145-157.
  • Barrois, Charles . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 438–439 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Charles Barrois (with picture) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 6, 2016.
  2. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Barrois, Charles Eugene. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed November 30, 2019 (Russian).
  3. ^ Paläontologische Zeitschrift , 1, Issue 1, March 1914
  4. ^ Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed October 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Barrois, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barrois, Charles Eugene (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French geologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1939
Place of death Sainte-Genevieve-en-Caux , Seine-Maritime