THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE IV. VOL. X. 



No. II.— FEBRUARY, 1903. 



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I. — Eminent Living Geologists : Prof. Albert Jean Gaudrt, 

 Memb. Inst. France, For. Memb. E.S., For. Memb. Geol. Soc. 



(WITH A PORTRAIT, PLATE II.) 



THE recent retii-ement of Professor Albert Jean Gaudry, who for 

 fifty years has been associated with the Jardin des Plantes, 

 gives us an opportunity of presenting our readers with his portrait. 



Born in 1827, he started for Cyprus and Greece at the age of 25, 

 on what was destined to prove an epoch-making visit, for while 

 there he obtained satisfactory information about the rich deposit of 

 vertebrata at Pikermi, which he afterwards visited. The results 

 of his labours are embodied in the classic " Animaux fossiles et 

 Geologic de TAttique" (1862-67), and a new world of vertebrate 

 life was fully opened to zoologists, of which the first glimpse had 

 been obtained by Wagner. But perhaps the best known of Gaudry's 

 writings is his " Enchainements du monde animal dans les temps 

 geologiques" (1878), reprinted in 1895, a work which has had great 

 influence on the younger school of thought (see Geol. Mag., 1878, 

 pp. 221-227, and 1884, pp. 32-40). 



Appointed Assistant to Professor Alcide d'Orbigny (the first to 

 hold the Chair of Palaeontology at the Jardin des Plantes) in 1853, 

 while still in Cyprus, he succeeded Edouard Lartet in that Chair 

 in 1872. He was Vice- Secretary of the Geological Society of 

 France in 1852, Secretary in 1854, and President in 1863, 1878, 

 and 1887 ; while in 1900 he presided over the Meetings of the 

 Eighth International Congress of Geology, held in Paris. 



Gaudry's first published works dealt with Starfishes (1852) and 

 the Origin of Flint (1852), but soon afterwards he confined himself 

 to Vertebrate Palseozoology, with a result that is known to even the 

 most superficial student of the science throughout the world. 



Professor Gaudry has observed that, among students of Nature of 

 all ages, two methods of work may be noticed : the synthetical and 

 the analytical. It is not difficult to see that he himself is more 

 in sympathy with the former, and on the occasion of his Jubilee, 

 recently celebrated in Paris (Geol. Mag., May, 1902, p. 240), the 



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