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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Jean Albert Gaudry. 



searches followed, including work on 

 the Patagonian vertebrates, and much 

 attention was given to the collections 

 of the museum. Wide influence was 

 exerted by his less technical writings in 

 paleozoology and organic evolution. 



Giard was born in 1846 in Valen- 

 ciennes ; like Gaudry and so many other 

 naturalists, he was eagerly interested 

 in nature and in collecting as a child. 

 He became professor of natural history 

 at Lille in 1873, and in 1888 there was 

 established for him at the Paris Sor- 

 bonne a chair of " evolution of organic 

 beings," a valviable step that should be 



followed by other universities. In the 

 meanwhile, Giard had in 1874 founded 

 at Wimereux, near Bologne, a marine 

 biological station from which there 

 have been issued not fewer than fifty 

 volumes containing a vast amount of 

 important research. His own work 

 covered nearly the whole range of the 

 biological sciences and extended to 

 botany. Perhaps his work on para- 

 sitology is best known, but his re- 

 searches are encyclopedic in their ex- 

 tent, equally at home in minute details 

 ! and in broad theories. 



