of Comparative Zoology, and was in charge of its palaeontological division from 1860 to 1864. Subsequently, he devoted himself to scientific research until 1875, when he again began service for the United States government, and accompanied the Wheeler Survey to Southern California. Personal life and death Jules Marcou married Jane Belknap of Boston in 1850. They had two children. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1898 and was interred there in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Publications Life, letters, and works of Louis Agassiz (1895) Cretaceous formations of the Jura Dyas (Permian) of Nebraska Taconic rocks of Vermont and Canada American Geological Classification and Nomenclature (1888) Geological Map of the World (1861, 2nd ed. 1875) A Little More Light on the United States Geological Survey (1892) Lettres sur les roches du Jura et leur distribution géographique dans les deux hémisphères (1857–1860) Geology of North America (1858) References Sources (fr) : Durand-Delga M., Moreau R., Jules Marcou (1824-1898) précurseur français de la géologie nord-américaine, L'Harmattan, 200 pages, 2003. Further reading 1824 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Swiss geologists 19th-century American geologists Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Burials in Massachusetts Museum founders People from Franche-Comté 19th-century philanthropists Academic staff of ETH Zurich People from Jura (department)