Henri Filhol Henri Filhol (13 May 1843 – 28 April 1902) was a French medical doctor,

malacologist Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, ...

and naturalist born in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Pa ...

. He was the son of Édouard Filhol (1814-1883),

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of the Muséum de Toulouse. After receiving his early education in Toulouse, he moved to

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, where he obtained doctorates in medicine and science. In 1879 he was appointed professor of

zoology Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

at the Faculty of Toulouse. From 1894 to 1902 he occupied the chair of comparative animal

anatomy Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having it ...

at the ''

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

'' in

. In 1897 he became a member of the ''

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''. In the field of

paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

, he performed important studies of fossilized mammals in the

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Quercy Quercy (; oc, Carcin , locally ) is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and ...

.Henri Filhol (1843-1902)- Gloubik Sciences. He served as the expedition doctor and naturalist on the French

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, with Filhol Peak on the island being named after him.Tee, Garry J
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''. In 1883 with

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who se ...

Léon Vaillant Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the College d'Arras, followed by studie ...

, Edmond Perrier and others, he embarked on a scientific journey aboard the Talisman.

Filhol's Collection in the Muséum de Toulouse

Adapis parisiensis MHNT PAL 2013 0 1014 Esamps 46 Oligocène Filhol.jpg, ''Adapis parisiensis'' Hyaenodon Filholi MHNT PAL 2013 0 1013 1 3 Filhol Caylus Oligocène.jpg, ''Hyaenodon filholi'' Canis lupus Canine percée MHNT PRE 2010.0.12.2 Henri Filhol.jpg, Wolf Canine adornment Magdalenian

Gourdan-Polignan Gourdan-Polignan (; oc, Gordan e Polinhan) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France. Montréjeau-Gourdan-Polignan station has rail connections to Toulouse, Pau, Bayonne and Tarbes. Population See also *Communes o ...

Filhol - Pendeloque en bois de renne - MHNT GOU 99 24 87.jpg, Pendant in reindeer antlers

References

1843 births 1902 deaths French malacologists French naturalists French paleontologists French zoologists Physicians from Toulouse 19th-century French physicians Academic staff of the University of Toulouse Members of the French Academy of Sciences Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery National Museum of Natural History (France) people 19th-century French scientists Scientists from Toulouse {{France-scientist-stub