815 - PALEOONTOLOGY - GEOLOGY. Approximately 13 documents.

PALEOONTOLOGY - GEOLOGY. Approximately 13 documents. -VAN BENEDEN, Pierre-Joseph (1809–1894), Belgian paleontologist and zoologist. L.A.S. Leuven, March 18, 1877. 1½ pages, in-12 format. An interesting letter regarding his atlas on FOSSIL SEALS discovered during fortification work in Antwerp. -EUDES-DESLONGCHAMPS, Eugene (1830–1889), French paleontologist and naturalist. L.A.S. Caen, February 8, 1869. 1 p. in-8. Regarding the replacement of Adolphe Desmier d’Archiac (1802–1868), geologist and paleontologist, as head of the paleontology department at the Museum. Chevreul nominates himself for the position. He mentions his colleagues, the geologists and paleontologists Albert Gaudry (1827–1908) and Édouard Lartet (1801–1871). It was the latter who would be appointed to head the chair, as Eudes-Deslongchamps had proposed. -LARTET, Édouard (1801–1871), French paleontologist and prehistorian. L.A.S. [Place omitted], “Friday, March 12, 1869.” Regarding his scientific work, his colleague Jules René Bourguignat (1829–1892), a paleontologist and malacologist, etc. -D'ARCHIAC, Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon (1802–1868), French geologist and paleontologist. L.A.S. No place, July 12, 1865. 1 p. in-8. Letterhead of the Natural History Museum. Paleontology. Interesting scientific correspondence regarding polished serpentine limestone, etc. He mentions expecting a bear pelvis to be sent by his colleague, the paleontologist, speleologist, and zoologist Henri Filhol (1843–1902), a great discoverer of fossil remains during his cave explorations, notably those of large Quaternary mammals and thus cave bears. -DELESSE, Achille (1817–1881), French geologist and mineralogist. L.A.S. Paris, December 22, 1877. 1 p. in-8. Letterhead of the Geology Laboratory of the École Normale. Meeting of the Geographical Society. -PRÉVOST, Louis Constant (1787–1856), French geologist. L.A.S., Paris, April 9, 1852. 1 p., in-4. Request for an urgent replacement, due to health issues, in the person of geologist Achille Delesse (1817–1881), who accepted out of friendship “this position, and his contribution will be no less useful to teaching than it will be a pleasure to me […].” -DAUBRÉE, Auguste (1814–1896), French geologist. Letter from Paris, December 24, 1891. 1 p., in-8. He mentions his “retirement.” -ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT, Léonce (1798–1874), French geologist. Letter to an esteemed colleague. Paris, February 6, 1870. 1 p., in-8, on mourning paper. -BRONGNIART, Adolphe (1801–1876), French botanist and paleontologist. Letter from the author. No place, no date. 1 p., in-8. Regarding a colleague who was a physician (Cazalis). -BERTRAND, Alexandre (1820–1902), French archaeologist. Pioneer of Gallic and Gallo-Roman archaeology and founder of the Museum of National Antiquities. L.A.S. Saint-Germain-en-Laye, December 15, 1883. 1 p., in-12. Change to be made to the title of his lecture “At the Time of the Founding of Rome. Please be so kind as to replace ‘at the time’ with ‘prior to’ the era, etc. […].” -GAUDRY, Albert (1827–1908), geologist and paleontologist. Set of 2 letters, 1893 and 1895. Letterhead of the Natural History Museum—Paleontology. Regarding the restoration of the embankments at Fort Serrat in Perpignan, which his laboratory will finance; interesting accounts from the laboratory and the “bequest” of the “greenhouses,” etc. A note from Albert Donnezan on the aforementioned embankment is enclosed. - GERVAIS, Paul (1816–1879), zoologist and paleontologist. Letter dated 1870. Letterhead of the Natural History Museum—Comparative Anatomy. A fine letter concerning the femur and tibia casts of the AEPYORNIS (the giant elephant bird of Madagascar), discovered and received from Alfred Grandidier, naturalist and explorer. They will be painted and exhibited at the Gallery, etc.