Hercule Nicolet was a Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

lithographer

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

 and entomologist who specialized in Thysanura

Thysanura

Thysanura is an order of insects, encompassing silverfish and firebrats, known for their three long caudal filaments.The families Machilidae and Meinertellidae of the jumping bristletails were once included with Thysanura....

 and Collembola.

Hercule Nicolet was the son of Bénédict-Alphonse Nicolet (1743-1807).He was the business partner of Jean Coulin (1822-1883) in lithographic firm of Hercule "Nicolet and Coulin fils", pressing the plates for Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel co-edited by Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...

 and many other geological and natural history works. He wrote
Recherches pour Servir á l'Histoire des Podurelles. Nouv. Mém. Soc. Helvet. Sci. Nat., 6, p.1-88 (1842) and Essai sur une classification des insectes aptères, de l'ordre des Thysanoures. (Séance du 25 Mars 1846) Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 2e Série, Tome V, p.335-395 (1847).

He was a Member of the Société entomologique de France

Société entomologique de France

The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. It was founded in 1832.The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832...

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