Beaumont, Jean Baptiste Élie de, French geologist, born in Calvados; became secretary to the Academy of Sciences; was joint-editor of a geological map of France. He had a theory of his own of the formation of the crust of the earth (1798‒1874).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Beaumont, Francis * Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant