Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas (17 January 1814 – 5 July 1899) was a French
entomologist
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Lucas was an assistant-
naturalist 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 ...
. From 1839 to 1842 he studied fauna as part of the scientific commission on the exploration of
Algeria
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Works
* ''Histoire naturelle des lépidoptères exotiques. Ouvrage orné de 200 figures peintes d'après nature par Pauquet et gravées sur acier''. Paris, Pauquet, Bibliothèque Zoologique, 1835.
* ''Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés. Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie, pendant les années 1840, 1841 et 1842''. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale (1844–1849). Published in 25 volumes this work contains 122 fine engraved plates.
* "Description de nouvelles Espèces de Lépidoptères appartenant aux Collections entomologiques du Musée de Paris". ''Revue et magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée''. (2) 4 (3): 128–141 (1852) 4 (4): 189–198 (1852) 4 (6): 290–300 (1852) 4 (7): 324–343 (1852) 4 (9): 422–432, pl. 10 (1852) 5 (7): 310–322 (1853).
* "Animaux nouveaux ou rares, recuillis pendant l'expédition dans les parties centrales de l'Amérique du Sud, de Rio de Janeiro a Lima et de Lima au Pará; executée par ordre du gouvernement français pendant les années 1843 a 1847 sous la direction du
Comte Francis de Castelnau". ''Entomologie Voy. Cast''. 3: 197–199, pl. 1–2 (Lepidoptera)
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Events
By place
Europe
* January 15 – Battle of St. Quentin: Frankish forces, le ...
* ''Essai sur les animaux articulés qui habitent l'île de Crète''
External links
* Scanned plates from ''Histoire naturelle des animaux articulés''. (plates incorrectly attributed to
Gérard Paul Deshayes
Gérard Paul Deshayes (; 13 May 1795 – 9 June 1875) was a French geologist and conchologist.
Career
He was born in Nancy, France, Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the département ...
who did the
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...
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1814 births
1899 deaths
French zoologists
French lepidopterists
National Museum of Natural History (France) people
19th-century French zoologists
Scientists from Paris
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