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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Marcou, Jules 1824-1898 (search)
Marcou, Jules 1824-1898 Geologist; born in Salins, Jura, France, April 20, 1824; was educated in Paris, and while travelling in Switzerland became interested in scientific investigation. In 1846 he was appointed an assistant in the department of mineralogy in the Sorbonne, and in 1847 travelling geologist for the Jardin des Plantes, in Paris. It was under this last appointment that he came to the United States, and with Prof. Louis Agassiz visited the region around Lake Superior in 1848. During the following year he studied the geology of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and the Canadian provinces. He returned to Europe in 1850, but was soon again in the United States, and in 1853 entered the service of the government. He was the first geologist to cross the American continent, and during his trip he made a section map of the thirty-fifth parallel from the Mississippi to the Pacific coast. In 1861-64 he had charge of the division of paleontology in the Museum of Compara