Jules Favre (6 November 1882,

Le Locle Le Locle (; german: Luggli) is a municipality in the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is situated in the Jura Mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switzerland (in Switzerland ...

– 22 January 1959,

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) was a Swiss

zoologist 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 d ...

, mycologist and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, althoug ...

. He was curator at the Natural History Museum of Geneva from 1915 to 1952. He studied

natural sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...

at the Neuchâtel Academy, and in 1907, started work as an assistant at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Geneva, where he eventually became a curator of geology and

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 ...

. In 1952 he received an honorary degree from the

University of Neuchâtel The University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) is a French-speaking university based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The university has four faculties (schools) and more than a dozen institutes, including arts and human sciences, natural sciences, law and eco ...

.Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
biography During his career, he was a recipient of the ''Prix Desmazières'' of the

Académie des sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at th ...

of Paris and the ''Prix de la Ville de Genève''. In 1927 he became a member of the ''Société linnéenne de Lyon'' (Linnean Society of Lyon).Sociétés savantes de France
bibliography His type material is stored in the collections at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Geneva, and some material is kept in the Melvill-Tomlin collection at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Published works

Partial list: * 1911. * 1913. * 1914. Carte du Salève (Haute-Savoie), 1/25.000. Dressée d'après des levés photogrammétriques et barométriques et des croquis pris sur place avec E. Joukowsky. * 1927. Les mollusques post-glaciaires et actuels du bassin de Genève. * 1935. Histoire malacologique du lac de Genève. In: Mémoires de la Société physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève. * 1941. Les Pisidium du canton de Neuchatel. In: Bulletin de la société neuchateloise des sciences, T. 66. * 1945. Études mycologiques faites au Parc national suisse. * 1955. * 1960. Catalogue descriptif des champignons supérieurs de la zone subalpine du Parc national suisse. Books about Jules Favre: * 1959. "L'œuvre mycologique de Jules Favre", Lons-le-Saunier : M. Declume, 1959. by Henri Romagnesi.WorldCat Title
L'œuvre mycologique de Jules Favre and in: Bulletin de la Société Mycologique de France 75, 1959, 418-426.

References

* Turner, H., J. G. J. Kuiper, N. Thew, R. Bernasconi, J. Rüetschi, M. Wütrich & M. Gosteli, 1998 Kurze Erforschungsgeschichte der Weichtiere der Schweiz / Historique abrégé de la recherche malacologique en Suisse. pp. 9–19, In: Atlas der Mollusken der Schweiz und Liechtensteins. Fauna Helvetica 2, 527 pp., Neuchâtel. Biography, portrait 20th-century Swiss geologists 19th-century Swiss zoologists 1882 births 1959 deaths Swiss malacologists Swiss mycologists Swiss taxonomists People from Le Locle 19th-century Swiss geologists 19th-century Swiss botanists 20th-century Swiss botanists 20th-century Swiss zoologists {{Switzerland-scientist-stub