Émile Blanchard
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Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Natural History Museum |
Charles Émile Blanchard (6 March 1819 – 11 February 1900) was a
entomologist
.
Career
Blanchard was born in
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
. In 1838, he became a technician or préparateur in this then, as now, famous institution. In 1841, he became assistant-naturalist.
He accompanied
marine zoology expedition. He published, in 1845 a Histoire des insectes, or History of the insects and, in 1854—1856 Zoologie agricole or Agricultural Zoology. This last work is remarkable: it presents in a precise way the harmful or pest species and the damage they cause to various crop plants. This work was illustrated by his father. Blanchard was critical of Darwinism. He argued that Charles Darwin's pigeon studies were unscientific and that his ideas about evolution were false and unoriginal.[1][2]
In 1870, Blanchard and Charles-Philippe Robin opposed the election of Darwin as a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.[1]
He published an atlas of the anatomy of the
Academy of Science. He began to lose his sight after 1860 and became blind in 1890. He died in Paris.[3][4]
Selected publications
- The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Insects (1870) [with Duncan P. Martin]
- Histoire des Insectes (1845)
- Catalogue des Coleopteres du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (1850-51)
- Métamorphoses mœurs et instincts des insectes (1868)
References
- ^ ISBN 0-226-29977-5
- ISBN 978-0-521-76889-4
- ISSN 0028-0836.
- ^ Global Ant Project
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