Gérard Paul Deshayes

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Gérard Paul Deshayes , (born May 13, 1795 in Nancy , † June 9, 1875 in Boran , Département Oise ), was a French paleontologist and malacologist . Desh. is its official zoological abbreviation.

Live and act

Deshayes, whose father was a professor of experimental physics in Nancy, studied medicine in Strasbourg , came to Paris in 1819 and turned to natural history here. Deshayes heard lectures from Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , gave occasional lessons in geology and professor of natural history at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris. From 1839 he was in Algeria for several years.

His most important works relate to the tertiary formation . He studied Tertiary fossil molluscs in the Paris Basin, which he compared with recent species. With Charles Lyell he divided the Tertiary Period with Pliocene , Miocene and Eocene into three parts. In 1870 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London for his achievements .

Memberships

When La Société Cuvierienne was founded in 1838 , he was one of the 140 founding members of the society.

Fonts

  • Traité élémentaire de conchyliologie avec les applications de cette science à la géologie , 1839–1857
  • Catalog des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion , 1863
  • Description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris , 2 volumes, 1824–1837
  • Description des coquilles caractéristiques des terrains (1831)
  • Description des animaux sans vertèbres découverts dans le bassin de Paris , 3 volumes, 1856–1866

Together with Henri Milne Edwards , he re-edited the " Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres " by Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1836–46, 11 vols.) And worked on the molluscs in the expedition report of the Morea expedition (in which he wrote Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846) accompanied), to Georges Cuvier's work " Le règne animal " (German: " Das Thierreich "), to the " Encyclopédie méthodique " and provided a continuation to the " Histoire des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles " by André Étienne d'Audebert de Férussac . For the " Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie " he wrote the "Histoire naturelle des mollusques" (1845).

literature

  • Société Cuvierienne: List of the Premiers Fondateurs de La Société Cuvierienne, Association universelle pour l'avancement de la Zoologie, de L'Anatomie comparée et de la Palaeontologie . In: Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne . tape 1 , 1838, p. 189-192 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société Cuvierienne, p. 190.
  2. ^ Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie sciences naturelles
  3. ↑ Histoire naturelle des mollusques
personal data
SURNAME Deshayes, Gérard Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deshayes, Gerard Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist and conchologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Nancy
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1875
Place of death Boran , Oise department