Frédéric Courtois (1860–1928) was a
French
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missionary and
naturalist.
Frédéric Courtois was a missionary in
China
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from 1901 until his death. He directed
Musée Heude in
Xujiahui. Courtois was primarily interested in
ornithology and
botany. From 1906 to 1928, he organized expeditions in the provinces of
Jiangsu and the mountains of
Anhui and the
Huangshan range. On these expeditions, he brought back some 40,000 specimens. His Anhui plant collection was published in 1933 by his successor, Henry Belval.
In 1923
Auguste Ménégaux gave the scientific name ''Garrulax courtoisi'' to the
blue-crowned laughingthrush in his honor.
Works
*1912. Catalogue des oiseaux du Musée de Zi-Kia-Wei (Xujiahui) ''Mém. Hist. Nat. Emp. Chinois'', 5 (3) : 1-98.
*1927. Les oiseaux du musée de Zi-Kia-Wei ''Mém . Hist. Nat. Chine'', 5 (3), 5e fasc.:123-159.
References
*Bo Beolens et Michael Watkins (2003).''Whose Bird ? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate''. Yale University Press (New Haven et Londres) : 400 p.
*Borrell, Octavius William, 1991 A short history of the Heude Museum "Musee Heude'': its botanist and plant collectors ''Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch'' Vol. 31 (1991 )ISSN 1991-729
French naturalists
French ornithologists
19th-century French botanists
1928 deaths
1860 births
Missionary botanists
20th-century French botanists
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