Item #H26225 Les Charbons D'Algues -- inscribed to Reinhardt Thiessen. Paul Bertrand.
Les Charbons D'Algues -- inscribed to Reinhardt Thiessen
Les Charbons D'Algues -- inscribed to Reinhardt Thiessen

Les Charbons D'Algues -- inscribed to Reinhardt Thiessen

Liege: 1930. First Printing. Wraps. Offprint, but we're unsure from what journal. Wraps, 11.75 x 8.25 inches, fair to good with wear and soil to covers, including some spottiness and chipping, one inch tear to foreedge of front wrap. Inscribed on front cover to Reinhardt Thiessen. Paginated 159-168 with 8 plates, and laid in 2pp article by Bertrand, "Les Botryococcacees Actuelles et Fossiles et les Consequences de Leur Activite Biologique" (1927). Bertrand studied at the University of Lille, receiving his degree in natural sciences in 1903 and his doctorate of sciences in 1909. In 1910 he became a lecturer in paleontology and director of the Lille "coal museum". In 1927 he attained the chair of paleobotany, a distinction created especially for Bertrand. Thiessen was interested in many of the same subjects as Bertrand. From the GeoScienceWorld website: "Reinhardt Thiessen pioneered the thin-section method of coal petrography in the United States as well as the application of spores to the correlation of coal beds. His scientific career, mainly with the U.S. Bureau of Mines, spanned three decades during which he investigated the petrographic and botanical composition of American coals and conducted related research on peat and oil shale. He was the first in North America and, perhaps, worldwide to relate the macroscopic bands in coal to a microscopic classification of coal." Fair. Item #H26225

Price: $45.00

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