Paul Henri Fischer

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Paul Henri Fischer, (7 July 1835 Paris - November 29, 1893) was a French physician, zoologist and paleontologist.

Biography

He studied science and medicine, securing doctorates in both, and became assistant in paleontology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He was made assistant naturalist there in 1872. Beginning in 1856, he was joint editor, with A. C. Bernardi to start with, of the Journal de Conchyliologie. He served several terms as president of the Société Géologique de France and the Société Zoologique de France. In 1880, he was a member of the commission for submarine dredging.

Bibliography

Faune conchyliologique marine du departement de la Gironde et des côtes du sud-ouest de la France (1865; enlarged by a Supplément in 1875)
Catalogue des nudibranches et céphalopodes des côtes océaniques de la France (1867-1875)
Recherches sur les Actinies des côtes océaniques de France (1876)
Une nouvelle classification des bivalves (1885)
Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique (1885-1887)
Paléontologie de l'ile de Rhodes (1887)
“Études sur les mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles,” in Mission scientifique en Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale (1893-1894)

Notes

References

"Fischer, Paul Henri". Nordisk familjebok 8. 1908. p. 402. (Norwegian)
"Fischer, Paul Henri". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Fischer, Paul Henri". Encyclopedia Americana.

External links

works by Paul Henri Fischer at Internet Archive

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Name	Fischer, Paul Henri
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Short description	French scientist
Date of birth	7 July 1835
Place of birth
Date of death	November 29, 1893
Place of death

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