Victor-Auguste Gauthier

During the nineteen years he spent in Marseille he devoted himself to the study of the Echinidae, a family of sea urchins, and made an important collection of the species of Provence.

[2] On 7 August 1883 Gauthier was named professor at the Lycée Michelet in Vanves and was soon promoted to the rank of officer of public instruction.

[3] In 1893 Philippe Thomas published the palaeontology results of the Tunisian Scientific Exploration Mission (1885–86) in six instalments plus an atlas, giving the work of Victor-Auguste Gauthier (sea urchins), Arnould Locard (Mollusca), Auguste Péron (Brachiopods, Bryozoa and Pentacrinitess) and Henri Émile Sauvage (fish).

From 1898 to 1905 Gauthier published several Contributions à l'étude des Echinides fossiles in the Bulletin du Société Géologique de France.

[3] In collaboration with the engineer René Fourtau, in 1899 Gauthier published the Révision des Echinides fossiles de l'Egypte.