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BY the death of this illustrious geologist and mineralogist the ranks of science have lost one of their most notable chiefs. Half a century has passed away since he began that remarkable series of investigations which have contributed in so large a measure to the progress of vulcanology and petrography. In 1854, associated with St. Claire Deville, he published his earliest experiments on the losses effected by heat on minerals, but he was soon led into the domain of volcanic geology by studying the combustible gases given off from the flanks of Vesuvius. The eruption of Etna on January 31, 1865, furnished him with opportunities of investigating the phenomena of a volcano in full activity, and the series of communications to the Paris Academy of Sciences recording his observations and deductions established his reputation as an accurate and accomplished chemist and mineralogist. The following year came the famous outburst of Santorin, and Fouqué, who had now taken enthusiastically to the subject, hastened to profit by the rare opportunities which this eruption afforded for the detailed study of volcanic phenomena. For several years he continued to publish the results of his visit and of his analyses of the rocks and gases which he had collected, finally embodying the whole ¦elaborate investigation in his great monograph “Santorin et ses Eruptions,” which appeared in 1879, and was at once hailed as one of the most important treatises that had yet been written in the domain of vulcanology.
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G., A. Ferdinand Fouqué . Nature 69, 492–493 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069492a0
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