Louis Lavauden (19 June 1881, in

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– 1 September 1935, in

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) was a French

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, animal kingdom, including the anatomy, structure, embryology, evolution, Biological clas ...

and

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. He was a student at the Institut agronomique et de l'Ecole forestière in Nancy, afterwards conducting zoological studies of the province

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. In 1912–13 he performed research of the fauna in

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and

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, and following

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, returned to Tunisia as a forester. In 1925 he took part in one of the first motorized crossings of the

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(from

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via

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). From 1928 he was stationed in

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, where he collected zoological specimens that included a number of

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species. Lavauden is credited with providing descriptions for several new mammal and avian species/subspecies. Many of his collections are housed at the natural history museum in Grenoble :fr:Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Grenoble. He was, from 1929, on the editorial committee of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' :fr:Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie with its founder Paul Paris and Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Henri Jouard, Jacques Delamain and Paul Poty.

Selected publications

* ''Oiseaux'', 1924. * ''La Chasse et la faune cynègètique en Tunisie'', 1924. * ''Les vertèbrès du Sahara : èlèments de zoologie saharienne'', 1926. * ''Le Problème forestier colonial. Avec 7 photographies et 3 planches hors texte'', 1931. * ''Le problème forestier colonial'', 1931. ** Books by Lavauden that have been translated into English: * ''The colonial forest problem'', 1934. * ''The equatorial forest of Africa : its past, present and future'', 1937. He was, in 1929, a founder of ''Alauda, Revue internationale d'Ornithologie'' with Noël Mayaud, Henri Heim de Balsac, Jacques de Chavigny, Paul Paris, Henri Jouard, Jacques Delamain and Paul Poty.

References

External links

Museum - Grenoble
(biography) 1935 deaths 1881 births People from Grenoble French foresters 20th-century French zoologists {{forester-stub