Prof Charles René Zeiller H
FRSE
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(14 January 1847, in
Nancy – 27 November 1915, in
Paris) was a French
mining engineer and
paleobotanist.
Life
He studied at the
École Polytechnique (1865–67) and at the
École nationale supérieure des mines (1867–70), where from 1878 onward, he taught classes in paleobotany. In 1911 he was appointed vice-president of the Conseil général des mines.
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Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications
In 1881 he became a member of the
Société botanique de France, later serving as its vice-president (1898) and president (1899 and 1904). In 1893 he was named president of the
Société géologique de France and from 1901 to 1915, was a member of the
Académie des Sciences (botanical section).
The paleobotanical genera ''Zeilleria'', ''Zeillerisporites'' and ''Zeilleropteris'' commemorate his name.
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Selected works
* ''Végétaux fossiles du terrain houiller de la France'', 1880.
* ''Notes sur la flore bouillère des Asturies'', 1882.
* ''Flore fossile'' (with Bernhard Renault), 1888–89.
* ''Étude sur la constitution de l'appareil fructificateur des Sphenophyllum'', 1893.
* ''Éléments de paléobotanique'', 1900.
* ''Flore fossile des gîtes de charbon du Tonkin'', 1902.OCLC Classify
List of published works
References
External links
IDREF.frExtensive bibliography
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1847 births
1915 deaths
People from Nancy, France
19th-century French botanists
French paleontologists
French mining engineers
Paleobotanists
Presidents of Société géologique de France
20th-century French botanists