Jules Haime (28 March 1824,

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metr ...

– 28 September 1856,

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) was a French

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and

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

known for his research of

coral Corals are marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact colonies of many identical individual polyps. Coral species include the important reef builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secre ...

. After studying medicine in Tours, he focused his energies towards natural history. Subsequently, he relocated to Paris, where he came under the influence of zoologist

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. In 1855 he became a professor of natural history at the

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in Paris. In January 1856 (several months prior to his death at age 32) he was named vice-president of the

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Written works

A monograph of the British fossil corals BHL12089106

He collaborated with Milne-Edwards on the following studies of coral: * ''Recherches sur la structure, et la classification des polypiers : recents et fossiles'', 1848-1849 - Research on the structure and classification of coral. * ''A monograph of the British fossil corals'', (published in English), 1850-1854. * ''Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits'', 1857-1860 - Natural history of coral, etc. Other noteworthy efforts associated with Haime include: * ''Description des animaux fossiles du groupe nummulitique de l'Inde, précédée d'un résumé géologique et d'une monographie des nummulites'', 1853 (with Adolphe d'Archiac) - Description of fossil animals ( nummulites) found in

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. * ''Description des bryozoaires fossiles de la formation jurassique'', 1854 - Description of fossil bryozoans of the Jurassic era. * ''Notice sur la géologie de l'ile Majorque'', 1855 - Notes on the geology of

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References

1824 births 1856 deaths Scientists from Tours, France French paleontologists French geologists French zoologists Members of Société géologique de France {{France-scientist-stub