Édouard de Verneuil

[1] He was born in Paris and educated in law, but being of independent means he was free to follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures on geology by Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont he was so attracted to the subject that he devoted himself assiduously to the study of science.

He spent several years in travel through various parts of Europe, specially examining the geology of the Crimea, on which he published an essay (Mem.

Subsequently, de Verneuil paid a visit to the United States to study the history of the palaeozoic rocks in that country, and the results were published in 1847 (Bull.

In later years he made numerous expeditions into Spain, and his observations were embodied in Carte geologique de l'Espagne et du Portugal (1864), prepared in association with Edouard Collomb.

The deformed brachiopod fossil Cyrtospirifer verneuili,[3] known to quarrymen as the Delabole Butterfly, was found in the upper Devonian beds of North Cornwall.