Quotes:Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d’

Zirkoff, Boris

Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d’. French palaeontologist, b. Sept. 6, 1802, at Couërzon (Loire Inférieure); d. at Pierresitte, June 30. 539 1857. Educated at La Rochelle and appointed travelling naturalist for Museum of Natural History at Paris. Went to South America. 1826, to gather information on natural history and ethnology, embodying the results in his Voyage dans I'Amérique Méridionale (1839-42). in 1840 began publishing a monumental work: Paléontologie Française, ou description des fossils de la France, in eight volumes, dealing with Jurassic and Cretaceous invertebrata. Appointed, 1853, professor of palaeontology at Museum of Nat. Hist, at Paris.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 2, pp. 538-539