Beaumont, JEAN BAPTISTE ÉLIE DE, born in 1798 at Caçon, in Calvados, taught geology in the École des Mines and Collège de France, was elected to the Academy in 1835, and became in 1856 its perpetual secretary. He died 22d September 1874. With Dufrénoy he prepared a great geological map of France (1840; 2d ed. 1855); and see MOUNTAINS, Vol. VII. p. 334.
Beaumont, JEAN BAPTISTE ÉLIE DE
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