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Professor of Physics Applied to Natural History was created for his father at the Museum d Histoire Naturelle, Edmund had the dilemma of choosing to attend TEcole Normale, I Ecole Polytechnique, or become an assistant to his father for the course that went with the professorship. He chose to assist his fatlier, and their collaboration continued for decades. Thus, his title on the title page of the hook published in 1855-1856 with his father is given as Professeur all Cousei vatoire imperial des Ai ts et Metiers, Aide-naturaliste au Museum d Histoire Naturelle, etc. After a short period as assistant at la. Sorhonne, and then as Professor at the Institut Agronomique de Versailles, he became Professor at the Cousei vatoire des Ai ts et Metiers in 1852, where he worked for almost forty years. When his father died in 1878, Edmond succeeded him as director of the Museum in addition to his professorship. He received a degree as Doctor of Science from the University of Paris in 1840, and was elected a member of I Academie des Sciences in 1863. 

Rodiere, E., Bocherens, H., Angibault, J.-M, and Mariotti, A. 1996 Particularites isotopiques de I azote chez le chevreuil (Capriolus capriolus L) implications pour les reconstitutions paleoenvironnementales. Comptes Rendus de I Academie des Sciences de Paris 323 179-185. 

Becquerel AH (1896a) On the invisible rays emitted by phosphorescent bodies. Comptes Rendus de Seances de I academie de Sciences 122 501-503... 

Yokoyama Y, Falgneres C, Luumley MA (1997) Datation direct d un crane proto-cro-magnon de Qafzeh par la spectrometrie gamma non destmctive. Comptes Rendues de I Academie de Science, Paris, Series 2, 324 773-79... 

L Academie Des Sciences Archives, Paris. The original Feb. 12, 1790, contract between Orleans, Leblanc, Shee, and Dize. 

Blanc, D., J. Fontan, and M. Juan, On the Mobilities of Natural Ions Obtained in Filtered Air, Compte Rendus de l Academie des Sciences de Paris 260 2099-2100 (1963). 

Coudrain-Ribstein, A. and P. Jamet, 1989, Choix des composantes et speciation d une solution. Comptes Rendus de I Academie des Sciences 309-11,239-244. 

I thank the two institutions that supported me while I wrote this book the Department of Geology at the University of Illinois and the Centre d lnformatique Geologique at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris in Fontainebleau, France. I began writing this book in Fontainebleau while on sabbatical leave in 1990 and completed it there under the sponsorship of the Academie des Sciences and Elf Aquitaine in 1995. 

Damour, M. A. (1865). Sur la composition des haches en Pierre trouvees dans les monuments celtiques et chez les tribus sauvages. Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des Seances de I Academie des Sciences 61 313-321, 357-368. 

The Academie Royale des Sciences was established in 1666 with fifteen members but no classes or sections. See Maurice Crosland, "The French Academy of Sciences in the Nineteenth Century," Minerva 16 (Spring 1978) 73102, on 75 and Oeuvres de Lavoisier, IV (Paris Imprimerie nationale, 1868) 559. A useful source for the Academy is the Index biographique de l Academie des Sciences, 16661978 (Paris Gauthier-Vi liars, 1979), and for the Academy in the nineteenth century, Maurice Crosland, Science Under Control The French Academy of Sciences 17951914 (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1992). 

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