Charles Barrois

Charles Eugene Barrois, known as Charles Barrois, was a French geologist and paleontologist born August 21, 1851, at Lille, France, who died November 5, 1939, at Sainte-Genevieve-en-Caux and was buried in Lille East Cemetery, and who published the first comprehensive account of the Upper Cretaceous paleontological zones of the Chalk and Upper Greensand in Britain in 1876, followed by extensive research on Cretaceous rocks in the Ardennes and the Oviedo Basin and on the Devonian, Palaeozoic and metamorphic rocks of France and Spain, working as petrologist, palaeontologist and field geologist. He served as a collaborator with the French Geological Survey from 1876, was appointed professor of geology at the University of Lille in 1877, and founded the Musee Houiller in Lille together with Museum Gosselet in 1907. He was awarded the Bigsby Medal in 1881, elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1904, was named a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, was made a Chevalier of the Legion d Honneur at age thirty seven and later elevated to Commander in 1923, was elected a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1915 and a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1936, and received the Wollaston Medal in 1901.