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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2022

Alcide d'Orbigny and the Paris Foraminifera: story of a collection under Byne attack

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In 1858, the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, acquired the prestigious foraminiferal collection of the French naturalist Alcide Dessalines d’Orbigny (1802-1857). Pioneer in the fields of micropaleontology and biostratigraphy, d’Orbigny’s deep interest in tiny shells and micro-fossils led him to publish the first classification of the Phylum of Foraminifera in 1826. He later became the first professor of palaeontology at the Museum. However, quarrels in the teaching community resulted in multiple vacancies at the chair of palaeontology after d’Orbigny’s death. His collection, which includes about 800 slides of type specimens, 3D sculptures enlarged 40-200 times, hundreds of “unpublished plates” and a thousand small bottles of sediments, was progressively abandoned. For almost a century, the foraminifera have been left to the care of scientists external to the museum. In 2007, a position of professor of micropaleontology was finally created and micropaleontological collections were gathered. Until then, the conditions of conservation of this outstanding scientific resource have been relatively unknown.
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Clara Hairie, Oulfa Belhadj, Annachiara Bartolini, Marie-Béatrice Forel, Véronique Rouchon. Alcide d'Orbigny and the Paris Foraminifera: story of a collection under Byne attack. Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 2022, National Museums Scotland; Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Jun 2022, Édimbourg, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-03827096⟩
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