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 '''Alfred Duvaucel''' (1793, [[Évreux]], [[Eure]] – 1825, [[Madras]], [[India]]) was a [[France|French]] [[natural history|naturalist]]. He was the stepson of [[Georges Cuvier]].
-In December 1817, he left to [[India]] and arrived in [[Calcutta]] in May 1818, where he met [[Pierre-Médard Diard]]. Together, they moved on to [[Chandannagar]], where they started a collection of animals and plants for the [[Paris Museum of Natural History]]. They employed hunters who supplied them every day with live and dead specimens, and also started a botanical garden to cultivate plants. In June 1818, they sent a first consignment to Paris, containing among others a skeleton of a [[Ganges river dolphin]]. The following consignments included a live [[Cashmere goat]], pheasants and various birds. In December 1818, they accompanied [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]] to [[Singapore]] and [[Sumatra]], and continued their collection under his contract.<ref>Société Asiatique (1824) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k93103v/f137.image.pagination.langEN ''Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde.''] Journal asiatique no. 21, Mars 1824</ref> They stayed in Sumatra for more than one year, during which time they sent nearly 2000 animals to Paris, comprising 88 species of mammals, 630 species of birds, 59 species of reptiles apart from skins, drawings and skeletons.<ref>Société Asiatique (1824) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k931046/f287.image.pagination.langEN ''Troisieme Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde, ayant pour objet plus particulier, l’histoire naturelle.''] Journal asiatique, Novembre 1824</ref>
+In December 1817, he left to [[India]] and arrived in [[Calcutta]] in May 1818, where he met [[Pierre-Médard Diard]]. Together, they moved on to [[Chandannagar]], where they started a collection of animals and plants for the [[Paris Museum of Natural History]]. They employed hunters who supplied them every day with live and dead specimens, and also started a botanical garden to cultivate plants. In June 1818, they sent a first consignment to Paris, containing among others a skeleton of a [[Ganges river dolphin]]. The following consignments included a live [[Cashmere goat]], pheasants and various birds. In December 1818, they accompanied [[Thomas Stamford Raffles]] to [[Singapore]] and [[Sumatra]], and continued their collection under his contract.<ref>Société Asiatique (1824) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k93103v/f137.image.pagination.langEN ''Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde.''] Journal asiatique no. 21, Mars 1824</ref> They stayed in Sumatra for more than one year, during which time they sent nearly 2000 animals to Paris, comprising 88 species of mammals, 630 species of birds, 59 species of reptiles apart from skins, drawings and skeletons. Notable species included [[gibbon]]s, [[leaf monkey]]s, two previously unknown [[fruit bat]] species, [[tree shrew]]s, [[skunk]]s, [[binturong]] and [[sun bear]].<ref>Société Asiatique (1824) [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k931046/f287.image.pagination.langEN ''Troisieme Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde, ayant pour objet plus particulier, l’histoire naturelle.''] Journal asiatique, Novembre 1824</ref>
 They were dismissed when Raffles discovered that most of the material was sent to the museum in Paris.