Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
1802–57
French palaeontologist. Travelled widely in South America, 1826–34, on a commission for the Muséum d’histoire naturelle. Professor of palaeontology, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1853.
Source
DSB
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.
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