Gustave Frédéric Dollfus
French geologist and malacologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustave Frédéric Dollfus (26 November 1850, Paris – 6 November 1931, Paris)[1] was a French geologist and malacologist. He was the father of parasitologist Robert-Philippe Dollfus (1887–1976).
In 1868–70 he studied geology under Edmond Hébert at the Sorbonne, then continued his education in Lille as a pupil of Jules Gosselet. In 1879 he began work at the Service de la carte géologique de la France (Department of French geological cartography).[2]
He was twice chosen as president of the Société de géologie de France (1896 and 1916).[3] In 1923 he was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London.[4]
His name is associated with several species of mollusk, an example being Chrysallida dollfusi, a sea snail described by Wilhelm Kobelt in 1903.[5] The World Register of Marine Species lists 272 marine species named by Dollfus.[6]