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DESLONOCHAMPS, JACQUES AMAND

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DESLONOCHAMPS, JACQUES AMAND ELIDES- (1794-1867), See also:French naturalist and palaeontologist, was See also:born at See also:Caen in See also:Normandy on the 17th of See also:January 1794. His parents, though poor, contrived to give him a See also:good See also:education, and he studied See also:medicine in his native See also:town to such good effect that in 1812 he was appointed assistant-surgeon in the See also:navy, and in 1815 surgeon assistant See also:major to the military See also:hospital of Caen. Soon after-wards he proceeded to See also:Paris to qualify for the degree of See also:doctor of See also:surgery, and there the researches and teachings of See also:Cuvier attracted his See also:attention to subjects of natural See also:history and palaeontology. In 1822 he was elected surgeon to the See also:board of See also:relief at Caen, and while he never ceased to devote his energies to the duties of this See also:post, he sought relaxation in See also:geological studies. Soon he discovered remains of Teleosaurus in one of the Caen quarries, and he became an ardent palaeontologist. He was one of the founders of the museum of natural history at Caen, and acted as honorary See also:curator; he was likewise one of the founders of the Societe linneenne de Normandie (1823), to the transactions of which society he communicated papers on Teleosaurus, Poekilopleuron (Megalosaurus), on See also:Jurassic See also:mollusca and See also:brachiopoda. In 1825 he became See also:professor of See also:zoology to the See also:faculty of sciences, and in 1847, See also:dean. He died on the 17th of January 1867. His son See also:EUGENE EUDES-DESLONGCHAMPS (183o-1889), French palaeontologist, was born in 183o. He succeeded his See also:father about the See also:year 1856 as professor of zoology at the faculty of sciences at Caen, and in 1861 he became also professor of See also:geology and dean. After the See also:death of his father in 1867, he devoted himself to the completion of a memoir on the Teleosaurs: the See also:joint labours being embodied in his Prodrome See also:des Teleosauriens du See also:Calvados. To the Societe Linneenne de Normandie he contributed See also:memoirs on Jurassic brachiopods, on the geology of the See also:department of La See also:Manche (1856), of Calvados (1856-1863), on the Terrain callovien (1859), on Nouvelle-Caledonie (1864), and Etudes sur See also:les etages jurassiques inferieurs de la Normandie (1864).

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work Le See also:Jura normand was issued in 1877–1878 (incomplete). He died at See also:Chateau Matthieu, Calvados, on the 21st of See also:December 1889.

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