Du Mineur. Son RôLe Et Son Influence Sur Les ProgrèS De La Civilisation D'aprèS Les DonnéEs Actuelles De L'archéOlogie Et De La GéOlogie. Fournet, Joseph Geowissenschaften

Lyon, Imprimerie de Rey et Sézanne, Rue Saint-Côme, 1862, 8°, (2), 475 pp., feiner Halbledereinband d.Zt.; Titelblatt am oberen Rand beschnitten; mit eigenhändiger Widmung auf Titel " Hommage a . J. Fournet". First Edition! JOSEPH JEAN BAPTISTE XAVIER Fournet (1801-1869), "French geologist and metallurgist, was born at Strassburg on the 15th of May 1801. He was educated at the École des Mines at Paris, and after considerable experience as a mining engineer he was in 1834 appointed professor of geology at Lyons. He was a man of wide knowledge and extensive research, and wrote memoirs on chemical and mineralogical subjects, on eruptive rocks, on the structure of the Jura, the metamorphism of the Western Alps, on the formation of oolitic limestones, on kaolinization and on metalliferous veins. On metallurgical subjects also he was an acknowledged authority; and he published observations on the order of sulphurability of metals (loi de Fournet). He died at Lyons on the 8th of January 1869. His chief publications were: Études sur les dépôts métallifères (Paris, 1834); Histoire de la dolomie (Lyons, 1847); De l'extension des terrains houillers (1855); Géologie lyonnaise (Lyons, 1861). " Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911, Vol. 10