Nicolas Auguste Pomel (20 September 1821 – 2 August 1898) was a French geologist, paleontologist and botanist. He worked as a mines engineer in Algeria and became a specialist in north African vertebrate fossils. He was Senator of Algeria for Oran from 1876 to 1882.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Published works
• 3 References
• 4 Sources

Life

Nicolas-Auguste Pomel was born in Issoire, Puy-de-Dôme, on 20 September 1821.He studied at the Lycée de Clermont and earned his Licence ès sciences.He was conscripted into the army when he was prepared to enter the École des mines.He became a civil engineer after being released.After the coup d'état of 2 December 1851 his Republican beliefs earned him deportation.He became a Garde des mines in Oran in 1866, and was promoted to the 1st cl* in 1872.From 1876 to 1882 he was member of the Senate (Oran division).In 1882 he was tasked with geological mapping of Algeria. He died in Dra-el-Mizan.

Pomel was also a prolific botanist, naming and describing many plant species and some genera as well. The genus Pomelia (Durando ex Pomel) from the family Apiaceae is named in his honor.

Published works

He was the author of nearly 100 publications on North Africa; his works include Sur les Alcyonaires fossiles Miocenes de l'Algerie (1868) and Des races indigènes de l'Algérie et du rôle que leur reservent leurs ap*udes (1871). Other written efforts by Pomel are:

• Catalogue méthodique et descriptif des vertébrés fossiles, 1853 – Catalog and description of vertebrate fossils.
• Cl*ification méthodique et genera des échinides vivants et fossiles, 1883 – Cl*ification of living and fossil Echinidae.
• Contributions a la cl*ification méthodique des Crucifères, 1883 – Contributions to the methodical cl*ification of Cruciferae.
• Une mission scientifique en Tunisie en 1877, 1884 – A scientific mission to Tunisia in 1877.
• Paléontologie ou description des animaux fossiles de l'Algérie, 1885–87 – Paleontology; a description of animal fossils from Algeria.
• Description stratigraphique générale de l'Algérie, 1889 – General stratigraphic description of Algeria.
• Caméliens et Cervidés, 1893 – Camelids and cervids.
• Les Rhinocéros quaternaire, 1895 – Quaternary rhinoceros.
• Les éléphants quaternaires, 1895 – Quaternary elephants.
• Singe et homme, 1896 – Monkeys and humans.

The standard author abbreviation Pomel is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.

References

Sources

• Robert, Adolphe; Cougny, Gaston (1889–1891), "POMEL (NICOLAS-AUGUSTE))", in Edgar Bourloton (ed.), Dictionnaire des Parlementaires français (1789–1889) (in French), retrieved 2018-04-29