Etienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon (Adolphe) Archiac, Vicomte d’Archiac
1802–68
French army officer, geologist, palaeontologist, and historian of geology. An active member of the Société géologique de France. Professor of palaeontology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1861.
Sources
DSB
Sarjeant 1980–96.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
Sarjeant, William A. S. 1980–96. Geologists and the history of geology: an international bibliography. 10 vols. including supplements. London: Macmillan. Malabar, Fla.: Robert E. Krieger Publishing.
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