Léopold de Folin (Alexandre Guillaume Léopold de,
Marquis
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de Folin, 28 August 1817 – 5 July 1896) was an author,
oceanographer
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,
malacologist
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and early founder (1871) of the collections which were to become the ''
Musée de la mer'' (sea museum) in Biarritz, France
De Folin wrote on
Caecidae for the reports published following the
Challenger expedition
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of 1872-1876.
With Henri Milne-Edwards's son
Alphonse, de Folin carried out a survey of the
Gulf of Gascony. He worked on board the ''Travailleur'' (a paddle-wheel
aviso
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) in 1880, and on board the ''
Talisman
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'' in 1883, for trips to the
Canary Islands
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, the
Cape Verde Islands
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and the
Azores
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.
De Folin also described the genus ''
Oceanida'' of sea snails in the family ''Eulimidae''.
Relatives
Léopold de Folin was the brother-in-law of the French naturalist
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet
Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (26 August 1809 – 9 October 1892) was a French natural history, naturalist, born in Lays, Doubs. He was a member of the commission to Algeria, primarily as a natural artist, drawing any natural findings. He col ...
, through his marriage with Morelet's sister Noémie.
Books
* ''Les Batysiphons'' (premières pages d'une monographie du genre) in ''Actes de la société Linnéenne de Bordeaux''. Deloynes - J. Perez - Paul Brunaud - Abbé Letu - E. Simon - P. Fischer - P. De Loynes - Marquis DE FOLIN - Fernand Lataste - Louis Petit - E. Benoist - J. T. Billiot - P. Fischer - E. Duregne, 1886.
* ''Les Fonds de la Mer'', études internationale sur les particularités nouvelles des régions sous-marines. De Folin, L. & Périer, L., 1867-1887.
* ''Sous les mers''. Campagne d'explorations du "travailleur" et du "talisman". Avec 45 figures intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Librairie J.B. Baillière et fils, 1887 .
* ''Pêches et chasses zoologiques''. Avec 117 figures dessinées par l'auteur et intercalées dans le texte. Paris, Baillière, 1893
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Tributes
The sea snail genus ''
Folinella'' was named after de Folin.
An exposition room dedicated to oceanography in the ''Musée de la mer'' in Biarritz, France, bears his name.
References
External links
1817 births
1896 deaths
French oceanographers
French malacologists
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