Claude Alexandre Albert Falsan (14 May 1833, in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

– 12 February 1902, in

Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or Saint-Cyr-au-Mont-d'Or (; Arpitan: ''Sant-Ciro-en-Mont-Tor'') or simply Saint-Cyr is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, central-eastern France. It is a northern suburb of Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal ...

) was a French

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and

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He was a student at the ''Collège des Minimes'' and also took classes at the

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as a pupil of geologist Joseph Jean Baptiste Xavier Fournet. Although he never received a diploma, he dedicated his time and energies to geological research of the Jura, the Lyonnaise region and the

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.Albert Falsan
at Sociétés savantes de France From 1869 to 1902 he was a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, and in 1873, a founding member of the Société de géographie de Lyon. During his career he also received the following awards and distinctions: * ''Lauréat de l'Institut, prix Bordin''. * ''Grande médaille du Congrès des sociétés savantes''. * ''Médaille d'or du concours de la Sorbonne'', 1880. * ''Médaille d'or de l'Académie de Lyon''.

Selected works

* ''Monographie géologique du Mont-d'Or lyonnais et de ses dépendances'', 1866 – Geological monograph of Mont-d'Or (Lyon) and outlying areas; with

Arnould Locard Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (8 December 1841 – 28 October 1904), usually known as Arnould Locard, was a French naturalist, malacologist and geologist. His name can be abbreviated/spelled as Arnoul at plates, for example Crosse (1890).Josep ...

. * ''Note sur les terrains subordonnés aux gisements de poissons et de végétaux fossiles du Bas-Bugey'', 1873 – Note on the subordinated deposits of fish and plants in Bas-Bugey; with Eugène Dumortier. * ''Monographie géologique des anciens glaciers et du terrain erratique de la partie moyenne du bassin du Rhône'', 1875 – Geological monograph on the ancient

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s and erratic terrain in the middle part of the

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; with

Ernest Chantre Ernest Chantre (13 January 1843, in Lyon – 24 November 1924, in Écully) was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist. Career From 1878 to 1910 he was an instructor of geology and anthropology classes at the Muséum de Lyon, and co ...

. * ''Notice sur la vie et les travaux de Théophile Ebray'' – On the life and work of Théophile Ébray. * ''La période glaciaire étudiée principalement en France et en Suisse'', 1889 – Glacial age studies, mainly involving France and

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. * ''Les Alpes françaises, la flore et la faune, le rôle de l'homme dans les Alpes, la transhumance'', 1893 – The

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, flora and fauna, the role of humans in the Alps,

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