After studying medicine in Tours, he focused his energies towards natural history. Subsequently, he relocated to Paris, where he came under the influence of zoologist Henri Milne-Edwards. In 1855 he became a professor of natural history at the Lycée Napoléon in Paris. In January 1856 (several months prior to his death at age 32) he was named vice-president of the Société géologique de France.[1]
Written works
A monograph of the British fossil corals by Henri Milne-Edwards and Jules Haime (Part I), published in 1850
He collaborated with Milne-Edwards on the following studies of coral:
Recherches sur la structure, et la classification des polypiers : recents et fossiles, 1848-1849 - Research on the structure and classification of coral.
A monograph of the British fossil corals, (published in English), 1850-1854.
Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits, 1857-1860 - Natural history of coral, etc.
Other noteworthy efforts associated with Haime include:
Description des animaux fossiles du groupe nummulitique de l'Inde, précédée d'un résumé géologique et d'une monographie des nummulites, 1853 (with Adolphe d'Archiac) - Description of fossil animals (nummulites) found in India.
Description des bryozoaires fossiles de la formation jurassique, 1854 - Description of fossil bryozoans of the Jurassic era.
Notice sur la géologie de l'ile Majorque, 1855 - Notes on the geology of Majorca.
