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A LITTLE more than fifty years ago, on October 5, 1883, the death occurred of Joachim Barrande, who was one of the greatest palaeontologists of the second half of the nineteenth century. Barrande was born on August 10, 1799, on the estate of his family at Sangues (Dept. Haute Loire). He studied at the Paris Polytechnic School. Besides lectures of a purely technical nature on bridge and road-construction, he attended those on geology, zoology and botany. His teachers were G. Cuvier, A. Brongniart, de Jussieu, C. Prevost, de Blainville, G. St. Hilaire, Serres, Audouin and others.
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KOLIHA, J. Joachim Barrande and his Palæontological Work. Nature 133, 437–438 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133437a0
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