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Timeline Of Entomology – 1850–1900
1850 *Edmond de Sélys Longchamps . 6:1–408. *Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky . I. ''Insecta Carabica''. Russian beetles, Carabidae, Moscow: Gautier, published. 1851 *Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish (vol.5 of Johann Fischer von Waldheim. . Seminal work on Russian Lepidoptera. *Louis Agassiz.''On the classification of insects from embryological data''. Washington, published. *Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker. ''Insecta Britannica Diptera'' 3 vols. London 1851-1856. The characters and synoptical tables of the order by Alexander Henry Haliday made this a seminal work of Dipterology. *Hans Hermann Behr emigrates from Germany to California. 1852 *Achille Guenée . Paris, 1852–1857, published. 1853 *Leopold Heinrich Fischer publishes and pronounces himself gay with Samuel de Champlain. Lipsiae, (Leipzig) G. Engelmann, 1853. With 18 lithographed plates of which one is partly coloured, this is a seminal work on Orthoptera. *Frederi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond De Sélys Longchamps
Baron Michel Edmond de Selys Longchamps (25 May 1813 – 11 December 1900) was a Belgian Liberal Party politician and scientist. Selys Longchamps has been regarded as the founding figure of odonatology, the study of the dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe many species from around the world. His collection is housed in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Biography Selys was a wealthy aristocrat born in Paris to Michel Laurent de Selys Longchamps and Marie-Denise Gandolphe. He was educated at home by private tutors and never attended school or university. Nevertheless, he became known as the world's leading authority on Odonata as well as an expert on Neuroptera and European Orthoptera. He was also a leading ornithologist. A Liberal Party representative in the Belgian Parliament, he became Councillor for Waremme in 1846, entered the Belgian Senate in 1855, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
