Paul Maurice Pallary
Paul Maurice Pallary (9 March 1869, in Mers-el-Kebir, French Algeria – 9 January 1942, in Oran, Vichy French Algeria) was a French-Algerian malacologist. His pioneering research on molluscs was mainly concentrated in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and in the Middle East. He was a prolific writer on malacofauna. But his interests also extended to other fields of zoology, geology and in particular the prehistory of Northern Africa. He became known as the "Dean of North African Prehistory." In 1892 he discovered, together with François Doumergue, several paleolithic and neolithic caves at Cuartel and Kouchet El Djir. He named more than 100 mollusc species and even a few genera (''Adansonia'' Pallary, 1902; '' Corbula'' (Physoida) Pallary, 1900; ''Orania Orania () is an Afrikaner separatist town founded by Afrikaners in South Africa. It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province. The town is split in two halves by the ...
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