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== Legacy ==
== Legacy ==
The Paris Museum of Natural History received nearly 2000 animals collected jointly by
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Diard is commemorated in the [[Binomial nomenclature|scientific names]] of a number of animals:
Diard and Duvaucel during their stay of more than a year in the [[Greater Sunda Islands]]. Their consignments comprised 88 mammal species, 630 bird species, 59 reptile species and contained stuffed animals, skins, skeletons, drawings and descriptions of such notable species as the [[Malayan tapir]], [[Sumatran rhinoceros]], [[Javan rhinoceros]], [[gibbon]]s, [[leaf monkey]]s, two previously unknown [[fruit bat]] species, [[tree shrew]]s, [[skunk]]s, [[binturong]] and [[sun bear]].<ref name="notice3">{{cite journal |publisher=Société Asiatique |year=1824 |author=Anonymous |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k931046/f287.image.pagination.langEN |title=Troisieme Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde, ayant pour objet plus particulier, l’histoire naturelle |journal=Journal asiatique |volume=IV |issue= Novembre 1824 |pages=277-285}}</ref> Several of these species were first described by French zoologists working at the Museum. [[Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest]] described the [[Malayan Tapir]] in 1819; the [[Sunda Stink Badger]] and ''Paradoxurus hermaphroditus bondar'', a subspecies of the [[Asian Palm Civet]] in 1820; the [[Sunda Pangolin]], the [[Javan Rhinoceros]], the [[Malayan Weasel]], and the genus of ''[[Semnopithecus]]'' in 1822.

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Of the species jointly collected by Diard and Duvaucel in Sumatra, Raffles first described the [[Sun Bear]], the [[Binturong]], the [[Crab-eating Macaque]], the [[Sumatran Surili]], the [[Siamang Gibbon]], the [[Silvery Lutung]], the [[Large Bamboo Rat]], the [[Large Treeshrew]] and the [[Cream-coloured giant squirrel]] in 1821.

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Diard first described the [[Common Treeshrew]] in 1820, and is commemorated in the [[Binomial nomenclature|scientific names]] of a number of animals:
* ''[[Hyllus diardi]]'', a [[spider]]
* ''[[Hyllus diardi]]'', a [[spider]]
* ''[[Macronota diardi]]'', a [[beetle]]
* ''[[Macronota diardi]]'', a [[beetle]]
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* Black-bellied Malkoha, ''[[Phaenicophaeus diardi]]''
* Black-bellied Malkoha, ''[[Phaenicophaeus diardi]]''
* Bornean Clouded Leopard, ''[[Neofelis diardi]]''
* Bornean Clouded Leopard, ''[[Neofelis diardi]]''

He first described the [[Common Treeshrew]] in 1820. Several species collected by Diard and Duvaucel were first described by French zoologists working at the Paris Museum of Natural History. [[Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest]] described the [[Malayan Tapir]] in 1819; the [[Sunda Stink Badger]] and ''Paradoxurus hermaphroditus bondar'', a subspecies of the [[Asian Palm Civet]] in 1820; the [[Sunda Pangolin]], the [[Javan Rhinoceros]], the [[Malayan Weasel]], and the genus of ''[[Semnopithecus]]'' in 1822.

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Of the species collected by them in Sumatra, Raffles first described the [[Sun Bear]], the [[Binturong]], the [[Crab-eating Macaque]], the [[Sumatran Surili]], the [[Siamang Gibbon]], the [[Silvery Lutung]], the [[Large Bamboo Rat]], the [[Large Treeshrew]] and the [[Cream-coloured giant squirrel]] in 1821.


Diard also collected the first specimen of a [[Saltwater crocodile]] from [[Brunei]].
Diard also collected the first specimen of a [[Saltwater crocodile]] from [[Brunei]].

Revision as of 16:39, 12 January 2011

Pierre-Médard Diard (1794–1863) was a

explorer
.

Diard studied

quadrupeds. In 1816, he traveled to the East Indies.[1]

Journeys in Southasia

In May 1818, he met

tapir from Sumatra that they had studied in Hastings menagerie. Later consignments included a live Cashmere goat, crested pheasants and various birds.[2][3]

In December 1818,

Royal Zoological Society. These were published in 1820 by Everard Home and planned for publication in the Histoire naturelle des mammifères by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Frédéric Cuvier. After their arrival at Bencoulen in August 1819, Raffles requisitioned most of their collection and left them copies of their drawings, descriptions and notes. Diard and Duvaucel took leave, sent their share to Calcutta and parted.[2]

Diard set off to Batavia. From Java, he sent a large consignment to Paris comprising 95 mammal species, 126 bird species, about 100 snake species including skeletons and skins of Malayan tapir and Javan rhinoceros. He proceeded to Borneo.[2] By spring 1824, he was assumed to sojourn in Cochinchina.[4]

Diard travelled in the East Indies until 1848. He collected a number of natural history specimens, some of which were sent back the Coenraad Jacob Temminck at Leiden. He also helped contribute with the early Roman Catholic missionaries in New France.[citation needed]

Legacy

The Paris Museum of Natural History received nearly 2000 animals collected jointly by Diard and Duvaucel during their stay of more than a year in the

Malayan Weasel, and the genus of Semnopithecus
in 1822.

Of the species jointly collected by Diard and Duvaucel in Sumatra, Raffles first described the

Large Treeshrew and the Cream-coloured giant squirrel
in 1821.

Diard first described the

Common Treeshrew in 1820, and is commemorated in the scientific names
of a number of animals:

Diard also collected the first specimen of a Saltwater crocodile from Brunei.

The standard author abbreviation Diard is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[6]

References

  1. ^ Deleuze, J. P. F. (1823) History and description of the Royal Museum of Natural History, published by order of the administration of that establishment (Volume 2) Paris, A. Royer
  2. ^ a b c Cuvier, G. (1821). "Notice sur les voyages de MM Diard et Duvaucel, naturalistes français, dans les Indes orientales et dans les îles de la Sonde". Revue encyclopédique. 10: 472–482.
  3. ^ Anonymous (1824). "Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde". Journal asiatique. IV (Mars 1824). Société Asiatique: 137–145.
  4. ^ Cuvier, F. (1824). "Notices sur les voyages de M. Duvaucel". Revue encyclopédique. 21: 257–267.
  5. ^ Anonymous (1824). "Troisieme Notice sur le voyage de M. A. Duvaucel, dans l'Inde, ayant pour objet plus particulier, l'histoire naturelle". Journal asiatique. IV (Novembre 1824). Société Asiatique: 277–285.
  6. ^ International Plant Names Index.  Diard.

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