Nicolas Auguste Pomel (20 September 1821 – 2 August 1898) was a French geologist, paleontologist and botanist. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. He was Senator of Algeria for Oran from 1876 to 1882.

Life

Nicolas-Auguste Pomel was born in Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, on 20 September 1821. He studied at the Lycée de Clermont and earned his Licence ès sciences. He was conscripted into the army when he was prepared to enter the École des mines. He became a civil engineer after being released. After the coup d'état of 2 December 1851 his Republican beliefs earned him deportation. He became a ''Garde des mines'' in Oran in 1866, and was promoted to the 1st class in 1872. From 1876 to 1882 he was member of the

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

(Oran division). In 1882 he was tasked with geological mapping of Algeria.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types He died in Dra-el-Mizan. Pomel was also a prolific botanist, naming and describing many plant species and some

genera Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...

as well. The genus ''Pomelia'' (Durando ex Pomel) from the family Apiaceae is named in his honor.

Published works

He was the author of nearly 100 publications on North Africa; his works include ''Sur les Alcyonaires fossiles Miocenes de l'Algerie'' (1868) Catalogue of Scientific Papers (1800–1900): ser. 2 , 1864–1873
by Henry White, Herbert McLeod, Henry Forster Morley and ''Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs aptitudes'' (1871). Other written efforts by Pomel are: * ''Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des vertébrés fossiles'', 1853 – Catalog and description of vertebrate fossils. * ''Classification méthodique et genera des échinides vivants et fossiles'', 1883 – Classification of living and fossil

Echinidae Echinidae is a family of sea urchins in the order Echinoida. Members of the family are found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Antarctic.Cruciferae. * ''Une mission scientifique en Tunisie en 1877'', 1884 – A scientific mission to Tunisia in 1877. * ''Paléontologie ou description des animaux fossiles de l'Algérie'', 1885–87 – Paleontology; a description of animal fossils from Algeria. * ''Description stratigraphique générale de l'Algérie'', 1889 – General stratigraphic description of Algeria. * ''Caméliens et Cervidés'', 1893 – Camelids and cervids. * ''Les Rhinocéros quaternaire'', 1895 –

Quaternary The Quaternary ( ) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ...

rhinoceros. * ''Les éléphants quaternaires'', 1895 – Quaternary elephants. * ''Singe et homme'', 1896 – Monkeys and humans.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pomel, Auguste 1821 births 1898 deaths 19th-century French botanists French geologists French paleontologists People from Issoire