Gerard Paul Deshayes

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Gerard Paul Deshayes (May 13rd 1795 - June 9th 1875), is a geologist and conchyliologist French.

He is born with Nancy where his/her father is professor of experimental Physique at the central school of the department of the Meurthe.

He studies the Médecine with Strasbourg but he gives up it to devote himself to the Natural history. During some time it gives to private lessons of Géologie then sign the natural history to the national Muséum of natural history.

It is characterized by its research on the Mollusque S Fossile S from the Tertiaire from the Paris basin and other areas. He studies the relations between his fossils and the species modern as of 1829 and arrives to conclusions similar to those of Lyell, which helps this last for the classification of the Eocene Tertiary sector in times , Miocène and Pliocène.

Deshayes is one of the founders of the geological Société of France. In 1839 it begins the publication of elementary sound Traité of conchology of which the last part is published in 1858. The same year (1839) he travels in Algérie on behalf of the French government and spends three years to explore this country. Its principal work drawn from this voyage is Mollusques of Algeria published, but incomplete, in 1848. It formed also part of the Expédition of Morée in 1829.

In 1870 the Geological Society off London decrees the Médaille Wollaston to him. He dies in Boran-on-Oise.

Publications

Description of the fossil shells of the surroundings of Paris (2 volumes 1824 - 1837)
Description of the animals without vertebrae discovered in the basin of Paris (3 volumes 1856 - 1866)
Catalog of molluscs of the island of the Meeting (1863).

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