Émile Deville

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French physician, naturalist and taxidermist

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::summary French physician, naturalist and taxidermist ::

Émile Deville (25 January 1824 – 8 January 1853) was a French physician, naturalist and taxidermist.

Emile Deville, already an employee of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, joined the 1843 expedition of Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810–1880) to South America with the doctor and botanist Hugh Algernon Weddell (1819–1877). He returned with many bird specimens, especially parrots, including two new species, Bonaparte's parakeet and the dusky-headed parakeet, which he described in 1851. He also described, with Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, the white-tailed titi, and with de Castelnau, some crabs.

A number of species bear his name, such as the blaze-winged parakeet, Pyrrhura devillei and the striated antbird, Drymophila devillei.

The following are a few of the writings that are attributed to Deville:

  • Description de quelques Mammifères et Oiseaux nouveaux de L'Amérique méridionale - Description of some new mammals and birds from South America.
  • Note sur quatre espèces nouvelles d'oiseaux provenant de l'expédition de M. Castelnau - Note on four new species of birds from the Castelnau expedition.
  • Considérations sur les avantages de la naturalisation en France de l'alpaca - Considerations on the advantages for naturalization of the alpaca in France.

References

  • Edward Julius Goodman, 1992 The Explorers of South America University of Oklahoma Press

References

  1. ''Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences'' Volume 42 Académie des sciences 1856 - Page 807 "On en doit la découverte à. ce , savant naturaliste, ainsi qu'à feu M. Émile Deville, l'un de ses compagnons de voyage."
  2. ''Expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud'' 1857 - Page 44 60 pages -"Au retour de l'expédition dont nous faisons connaître aujourd'hui les résultats scientifiques, nous avions cru cette espèce entièrement nouvelle, et nous l'avions dédiée à notre ami et collègue M. Émile Deville, qui faisait partie de ..."
  3. [http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/article/Laroussefr_-_Article/11020964 Larousse Encyclopedia] Conure de Deville
  4. [http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/species.jsp?avibaseid=3C30F1FF686010DB Avibase] Striated Antbird (Drymophila devillei) (Ménégaux & Hellmayr, 1906)
  5. [https://books.google.com/books?id=c7sGntGaaUIC&pg=PA57 Diccionario de los nombres de las aves de Colombia] Origen y uso by Alejandro Farieta
  6. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MwAOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA55 Revue zoologique] by Société cuviérienne
  7. [https://books.google.com/books/about/Note_sur_quatre_esp%C3%A8ces_nouvelles_d_ois.html?id=g1FBQwAACAAJ Google Books] Note sur quatre espèces nouvelles, etc.
  8. [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-deville,%20emile WorldCat Identities] (publications)

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