Charles Barrois

Charles Eugene Barrois ForMemRS[1] (21 August 1851 – 5 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the Jesuit College of St Joseph in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet.

In this essay the palaeontological zones in the Chalk and Upper Greensand of Britain were for the first time marked out in detail, and the results of Dr Barrois's original researches formed the basis of subsequent work, and were in all leading features confirmed.

His fame spread internationally, even before he was recognized in his own country, and he was honored by many European and American academies.

He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1915.