Paul Henri Fischer
Appearance
Paul Henri Fischer | |
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Born | |
Died | 29 November 1893 | (aged 58)
Citizenship | French |
Children | French zoologist Pierre Marie Henri Fischer (1865-1916) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Zoology |
Institutions | National Museum of Natural History (France) |
Paul Henri Fischer(also spelledPaul-Henri Fischer), (7 July 1835Paris– 29 November 1893) was a Frenchphysician,zoologistandpaleontologist.He is generally known asPaul Fischer.
Biography
[edit]He studied science and medicine, securing doctorates in both, and became assistant in paleontology at theNational Museum of Natural Historyin Paris. He was made assistant naturalist there in 1872. Beginning in 1856, he was joint editor, with A. C. Bernardi to start with, of theJournal de Conchyliologie.He served several terms as president of theSociété Géologique de Franceand theSociété Zoologique de France.In 1880, he was a member of the commission forsubmarine dredging.
Bibliography
[edit]- Faune conchyliologique marine du departement de laGirondeet des côtes du sud-ouest de la France(1865; enlarged by aSupplémentin 1875)
- Catalogue des nudibranches et céphalopodes des côtes océaniques de la France(1867-1875)
- Recherches sur les Actinies des côtes océaniques de France(1876)
- L.C. Kiener & Paul Fischer, Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris: la collection Lamarck, celle du prince Masséna (appartenant maintenant a M.B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs; Paris:J.B. Baillière,1873-80
- Une nouvelle classification des bivalves(1885)
- (in French)Fischer P., Œhlert D.P. &Woodward S. P.(1880-1887).Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachiopodes.Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures et 1138 gravures dans le texte. pp. I-XXIV, pp. 1–1369, Plates I-XXIII, 1 map. Paris.
- Paléontologie de l'ile de Rhodes(1887)
- “Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles,” inMission scientifique en Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale(1893-1894)
References
[edit]This article includes alist of references,related reading,orexternal links,but its sources remain unclear because it lacksinline citations.(May 2013) |
- "Fischer, Paul Henri".Nordisk familjebok(in Swedish). Vol. 8. 1908. p. 402.
- Gilman, D. C.;Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). .New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920).Encyclopedia Americana. .
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