Hippolyte Lucas
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
entomologist.
Lucas was an assistant-naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle is the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France.- History :The museum was formally founded on 10 June 1793, during the French Revolution...
. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific Commission on the exploration of Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
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His brother was Prosper Lucas
Prosper Lucas
Prosper Lucas was a French medical doctor, brother of Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas and specialist in the study of heredity. For which he wrote Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle - full title - Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle dans les états de...
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Works
- Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères exotiques. Ouvrage orné de 200 figures peintes d'après nature par Pauquet et gravées sur acier. Paris, Pauquet, Bibliothèque Zoologique 1835
- Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842 ... Paris, Imprimerie Nationale (1844-1849).Published in 25 Volumes this work contains 122 fine engraved plates.
- Description de nouvelles Espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux Collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris Revue Mag. Zool. (2) 4 (3): 128-141 (1852) 4 (4): 189-198 (1852) 4 (6): 290-300 (1852) 4 (7): 324-343 (1852) 4 (9): 422-432, pl. 10 (1852) 5 (7): 310-322 (1853)
- Animaux nouveaux ou rares, recuillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima et de Lima au Pará; executée par ordre du gouvernement français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 sous la direction du Comte Francis de CastelnauFrançois Louis de la Porte, comte de CastelnauFrançois Louis Nompar de Caumont LaPorte, comte de Castelnau was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau.-Life:Born in London, he studied natural history in Paris...
. Entomologie Voy. Cast. 3: 197-199, pl. 1-2 (Lepidoptera)[1859]
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- Royal Irish Academy Scanned plates from Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. (plates incorrectly attributed Gérard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
did the MolluscaMolluscaThe Mollusca , common name molluscs or mollusksSpelled mollusks in the USA, see reasons given in Rosenberg's ; for the spelling mollusc see the reasons given by , is a large phylum of invertebrate animals. There are around 85,000 recognized extant species of molluscs. Mollusca is the largest...
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