Léopold de Folin
Léopold de Folin | |
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| Born | 28 August 1817 |
| Died | 5 July 1896 (aged 78) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Oceanography, malacology |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | Folin |
Léopold de Folin[1] (French pronunciation: [leɔpɔl(d) də fɔlɛ̃]; Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de,[2] Marquis de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896[3]) was an author, oceanographer, malacologist and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the Musée de la mer (sea museum)[4] in Biarritz, France[5]
De Folin wrote on Caecidae for the reports published following the Challenger expedition of 1872-1876.
With Henri Milne-Edwards's son Alphonse, de Folin carried out a survey of the Gulf of Gascony. He worked on board the Travailleur (a paddle-wheel aviso) in 1880, and on board the Talisman in 1883, for trips to the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores.[6]
De Folin also described the genus Oceanida of sea snails in the family Eulimidae.
Relatives
[edit | edit source]Léopold de Folin was the brother-in-law of the French naturalist Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet, through his marriage with Morelet's sister Noémie.
Books
[edit | edit source]- Les Batysiphons (premières pages d'une monographie du genre) in Actes de la société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. Deloynes - J. Perez - Paul Brunaud - Abbé Letu - E. Simon - P. Fischer - P. De Loynes - Marquis DE FOLIN - Fernand Lataste - Louis Petit - E. Benoist - J. T. Billiot - P. Fischer - E. Duregne, 1886.
- Les Fonds de la Mer, études internationale sur les particularités nouvelles des régions sous-marines. De Folin, L. & Périer, L., 1867-1887. (in French)
- Sous les mers. Campagne d'explorations du "travailleur" et du "talisman". Avec 45 figures intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Librairie J.B. Baillière et fils, 1887 (in French).
- Pêches et chasses zoologiques. Avec 117 figures dessinées par l'auteur et intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Baillière, 1893 (in French)
- Other books on Amazon.com
Tributes
[edit | edit source]The sea snail genus Folinella was named after de Folin.
An exposition room dedicated to oceanography in the Musée de la mer in Biarritz, France, bears his name.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/pourquoi.php Archived 2008-11-22 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
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- ^ http://www.getxo.net/cas/ayu/personal/N00003.pdf (in Basque)
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- ^ http://www.museedelamer.com/archives/histoire/folin.php Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
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External links
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