Philippe Edouard Poulletier (Edouard) de Verneuil
1805–73
French geologist and palaeontologist. Studied, in particular, Palaeozoic stratigraphy and fossils. Travelled in Europe, 1835–8. Toured European Russia with Roderick Impey Murchison, 1840–1. Carried out geological studies in Spain, 1849–62. President of the Geological Society of France, 1840, 1853, and 1867.
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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