- Edouard de Verneuil
Phillippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil (
February 13 ,1805 -May 29 ,1873 ) was a French paleontologist.He was born in
Paris and educated in law, but being of independent means he was free to follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures ongeology byJean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont he was so attracted to the subject that he devoted himself assiduously to the study of science. He spent several years in travel through various parts of Europe, specially examining the geology of theCrimea , on which he published an essay (Mem. Soc. Geol. France, 1837). He next investigated the Devonian rocks and fossils of the Bas-Boulonnais; and in 1839 accompanied Sedgwick and Murchison in a study of the older Palaeozoic rocks of the Rhenish provinces andBelgium , the palaeontological results being communicated to theGeological Society of London in conjunction with the Vicomte d'Archiac.When Murchison commenced his geological examination of the
Russia n empire, he requested de Verneuil to accompany him, and the researches of the latter were incorporated in the second volume of "The Geology of Russia in Europe and theUral Mountains " (1845). Subsequently de Verneuil paid a visit to theUnited States to study the history of the palaeozoic rocks in that country, and the results were published in 1847 (Bull. Soc. Geol. France). In later years he made numerous expeditions intoSpain , and his observations were embodied in "Carte geologique de l'Espagne et du Portugal" (1864), prepared in association withEdouard Collomb . In 1853 the Wollaston medal of the Geological Society of London was awarded to him, and in 1860 he was elected a foreign member of theRoyal Society . He died in Paris.De Verneuil was President of the
Geological Society of France in 1840, 1853, and 1867.References
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* [http://darwin.lib.cam.ac.uk/perl/nav?pclass=name&pkey=Verneuil%2C%20P.%20E.%20P.%20de Darwin Correspondence Online Database Record]
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