La Société zoologique de France ( en, "Zoological Society of France"), founded in 1876 by Aimé Bouvier, is a

scientific society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may ...

devoted to

Zoology 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 ...

. It publishes a bulletin and organises the Prix Gadeau de Kerville de la Société zoologique de France.

List of presidents

* 1876–1877: Jules Vian * 1878:

Félix Pierre Jousseaume Félix Pierre Jousseaume (12 April 1835, in Charente-Maritime – 3 November 1921) was a French zoologist and malacologist. He studied medicine in Paris where he then practised. His thesis was ''Des Végétaux parasites de l'Homme''. He participate ...

* 1879: Edmond Perrier * 1880: Jules Vian * 1881:

Fernand Lataste Fernand Lataste (1847 - 1934) was a French zoologist and herpetologist born in Cadillac, Gironde. From 1880 to 1884 he collected reptiles and amphibians in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco), publishing ''"Les missions scientifiques d ...

* 1882: Eugène Simon * 1883: Jules Künckel d'Herculais * 1884: Maurice Chaper * 1885: Jean Pierre Mégnin * 1886:

Paul Henri Fischer Paul Henri Fischer (also spelled Paul-Henri Fischer), (7 July 1835 Paris – 29 November 1893) was a French physician, zoologist and paleontologist. He is generally known as Paul Fischer. Biography He studied science and medicine, securing do ...

* 1887: Adrien Certes * 1888: Jules Jullien * 1889: Gustave Cotteau * 1890: Jules de Guerne * 1891:

Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet Louis-Joseph Alcide Railliet (also known as Alcide Railliet, born 11 March 1852 at La Neuville-lès-Wasigny in the Ardennes – died 25 December 1930) was a French veterinarian and helminthologist. Professor at the Veterinary School of Alfort, ...

* 1892:

Philippe Dautzenberg Philippe Dautzenberg (20 December 1849, in Ixelles, Brussels – 9 May 1935, in Paris) was a Belgian malacologist, a biologist who specializes in the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with mollusks. He was an amateur and autodidact, who w ...

* 1893:

Émile Oustalet Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905 Saint-Cast) was a French zoologist.Hellmayr CE (1906). "Emile Oustalet bituary. ''Ornithologische Monatsberichte'' 14 (4): 57-59Scan Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the de ...

* 1894: Lionel Faurot * 1895:

Léon Vaillant Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the College d'Arras, followed by studie ...

* 1896: Louis Eugène Bouvier * 1897: Romain Moniez * 1898: Henri Filhol * 1899:

Charles Janet Charles Janet (; 15 June 1849 – 7 February 1932) was a French engineer, company director, inventor and biologist. He is also known for his innovative ''left-step'' presentation of the periodic table of chemical elements. Life and work Janet gra ...

* 1900:

Yves Delage Yves Delage (13 May 1854 – 7 October 1920) was a French zoologist known for his work into invertebrate physiology and anatomy. He also discovered the function of the semicircular canals in the inner ear. He is also famous for noting and prep ...

* 1901:

Édouard Louis Trouessart Édouard Louis Trouessart (25 August 1842 – 30 June 1927) was a French zoologist born in Angers. He studied military medicine in Strasbourg, but was forced to leave school due to serious health problems. In 1864 he started work as ''préparateur ...

* 1902:

Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay (29 April 1840 in Lamballe – 1923) was a French pharmacist, herpetologist and malacologist. Trained as a naval pharmacist, Bavay's scientific contributions included investigations involving the flora and fauna ...

* 1903: Jules Richard * 1904: Edgard Hérouard * 1905: Louis Joubin * 1906: François-Xavier Raspail * 1907: Georges Pruvot * 1908: Paul Marchal * 1909: Charles Alluaud * 1910: François-Henri Coutière * 1911: Jean Baptiste François René Koehler * 1912: Adrien Dollfus * 1913: Louis Roule * 1914: Raphaël Blanchard * 1915:

Maurice Caullery Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery (5 September 1868, Bergues – 13 July 1958, Paris) was a French biologist. Biography He was born in Bergues in north France on 5 September 1868. His early education was in Douai. He began as a lectu ...

* 1916: Adrien Lucet * 1917:

Jacques Pellegrin Jacques Pellegrin (12 June 1873, Paris – 12 August 1944) was a French zoologist. In Paris, he worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'histoire naturelle''. From 1897, Pellegrin served a ...

* 1918: Édouard Chevreux * 1919: Armand Lucien Clément * 1920: Émile Topsent * 1921:

Étienne Rabaud Étienne Antoine Prosper Jules Rabaud (12 September 1868 in Saint-Affrique – 3 September 1956 in Villemade) was a French zoologist, known for his studies of animal behavior. From 1894 he served as an assistant in the laboratory of teratolog ...

* 1922:

Émile Brumpt Alexandre Joseph Émile Brumpt (10 March 1877, in Paris – 8 July 1951) was a French parasitologist. He studied zoology and parasitology in Paris, obtaining his degree in science in 1901, and his medical doctorate in 1906. In 1919 he succeeded ...

* 1923: Paul Carié * 1924: Charles Pérez * 1925: Louis Boutan * 1926:

Félix Mesnil Félix Étienne Pierre Mesnil (Omonville-la-Petite, La Manche department, 12 December 1868 – 15 February 1938, Paris) was a French zoologist, biologist, botanist, mycologist and algologist. He was a student of Alfred Giard at the École Nor ...

* 1927: Raoul Anthony * 1928:

Édouard Chatton Édouard Chatton (; 11 October 1883 – 23 April 1947) was a French biologist who first characterized the distinction between the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cellular types. Chatton coined the terms and published them first in his 1937 paper ' ...

* 1929: Jean-Louis Fage * 1930:

Alphonse Malaquin Alphonse Malaquin (24 October 1868 – 22 April 1949) was a French zoologist born in the village of Cambrésis. He is known for his research of Polychaeta (class of annelids). In 1888 he began work as an assistant at the zoological laboratory a ...

* 1931:

Lucien Chopard Lucien Chopard (31 August 1885 – 16 November 1971) was a French entomologist. Chopard was born in Paris. He graduated as a Doctor of Science in 1920 at the Faculté des sciences de Paris with a thesis entitled ''Recherches sur la conformation ...

* 1932: François Picard * 1933: Armand Billard * 1934: Léonce Joleaud * 1935: René Legendre * 1936: Louis Mercier * 1937: Marie Phisalix * 1938:

René Jeannel René Jeannel (23 March 1879 – 20 February 1965) was a French entomologist.Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Jeannel (René, Gabriel, Marie) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, ...

* 1939:

Pierre-Paul Grassé Pierre-Paul Grassé (November 27, 1895 in Périgueux (Dordogne) – July 9, 1985) was a French zoologist, writer of over 300 publications including the influential 52-volume ''Traité de Zoologie''. He was an expert on termites and one of the las ...

* 1940: Robert-Philippe Dolfus * 1941: Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet * 1942: Édouard Bourdelle * 1943: Jacques Millot * 1944: Marcel Prenant * 1945: Georges Lavier * 1946:

Henri Piéron Louis Charles Henri Piéron (18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a French psychologist. He was one of the founders of scientific psychology in France. He developed the Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test (TP) with Édouard Toulouse. Biograp ...

* 1947: Édouard Fischer-Piette * 1948: Albert Vandel * 1949: Léon Bertin * 1950:

Paul Marais de Beauchamp Charles Alfred Paul Marais de Beauchamp (3 March 1883 – 30 January 1977), 5th Baron Soye, was a French zoologist. Life Paul Marais de Beauchamp was born in 1883 in Paris as the first son of Etienne Arthur Marais de Beauchamp, office manager of ...

* 1951: Marcel Aberloos * 1952:

Lucien Berland Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de ...

* 1953: Georges Teissier * 1954: Raymond Hovasse * 1955: Paul Vayssière * 1956: Germaine Cousin * 1957: Paul Remy * 1958: Étienne Wolff * 1959: Maurice Fontaine * 1960: Marcel Avel * 1961: Pierre Drach * 1962: Paul Pesson * 1963: Odette Tuzet * 1964:

Jean Dorst Jean Dorst (7 August 1924 – 8 August 2001) was a French ornithologist. Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1947 he joined the staff of the Muséum national d' ...

* 1965: Georges Busnel * 1966: François Rollier * 1967:

Alain Chabaud Alain Chabaud (13 March 1923 – 11 March 2013) was a French parasitologist, mainly a specialist of nematodes and sporozoa. He was the Director of the Laboratoire de Zoologie (Vers) in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1960 t ...

* 1968: Max Vachon * 1969: Marc de Larambergue * 1970: Bertrand Possompès * 1971: Louis Gallien * 1972: Hubert Lutz * 1973: Émile Biliotti * 1974: Roger Husson * 1975: Albert Raynaud * 1976–1977: Charles Bocquet * 1978–1979: Maxime Lamotte * 1980–1982: Claude Lévi * 1983–1984: Jean-Jacques Legrand * 1985–1986: Pierre Lubet * 1987–1988: Hubert Saint Girons * 1989: André Beaumont * 1990–2008: * 2009: Jean-Loup d'Hondt * 2010–2011: * 2012: René Lafont * 2018: Philippe Lherminier

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