Louis Hippolyte Bouteille (2 January 1804,

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- 19 August 1881, Grenoble ) was a French

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Bouteille studied

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from 1825 to 1827. He moved to Grenoble obtained pharmaceutical qualification from Faculté de Montpellier in 1833 where he practised. A naturalist from his youth he studied insects and birds. In 1843 he published ''Ornithologie du Dauphiné, ou Description des oiseaux observés dans les départements de l'Isère, de la Drôme, des Hautes-Alpes''(two volumes). He closed his shop in 1847 when he gained the post of '' Conservateur '' at Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble :fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble to the detriment of

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(1799–1859). Bouteille supervised the construction du Muséum in the '' Jardin des plantes'' considerably enriched the collections. He founded "la Société d'acclimatation des Alpes" also the ''Jardin d'acclimatation de Grenoble'' in 1854. He was also the author of ''Faune de l’Oisans'' in Essai descriptif de l’Oisans d'Aristide Albert (1821–1903).

References

*Maurice Boubier, L’Évolution de l’ornithologie, ''Alcan, coll. Nouvelle collection scientifique'', Paris, 1925, ii + 308 p. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouteille, Louis Hippolyte Bouteille French ornithologists 1804 births 1881 deaths