Pierre Antoine Delalande
Pierre Antoine Delalande | |
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| Born | 27 March 1787 |
| Died | 27 June 1823 (aged 36) |
| Known for | Collection of biological specimens |
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| Fields | Naturalist, taxidermist, explorer, painter |
Pierre Antoine Delalande (27 March 1787 – 27 June 1823) was a French
explorer and painter.[1]
Life
Pierre Antoine Delalande was the son of a taxidermist in the
Delalande was employed by the National Museum of Natural History to collect natural history specimens. He accompanied the botanist Augustin Saint-Hilaire in 1808 on a zoological collecting trip to Portugal, and was sent to the coast of Provence in 1813 to collect fishes and molluscs.[1] He traveled to Brazil in 1816 to collect specimens for the museum.[2]
In 1818 he began an expedition to
.He is honoured in the
blindsnake, Rhinotyphlops lalandei.[5]
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ a b c Delalande, Pierre Antoine at JSTOR Global Plants
- ^ Gunn & Codd 1981, p. 128.
- ^ Farber 2000, p. 26.
- ^ Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2014.
- ^ Beolens, Watkins & Grayson 2011, pp. 68, 149.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5.
- Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4729-0573-4.
- Farber, Paul Lawrence (2000). Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson. JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-6390-5.
- ISBN 978-0-86961-129-6.
External links
Media related to Pierre Antoine Delalande at Wikimedia Commons- Biography of Pierre Antoine Delalande at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science
- The Verreaux brothers
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