François Picard (1879,

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(Côte-d'Or) - 1939,

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) was a French

naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

who specialised in

botany Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

and

entomology Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

. He wrote '' Faune de France '' Volume n° 20 (1879-1939) ''Coléoptères Cérambycidae'' 1929, 168 p. He was a Member of the

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References

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*Groll, E. K. (2017).
Biographies of the Entomologists of the World
'. Online database, version 8. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Müncheberg French entomologists Presidents of the Société entomologique de France 20th-century French botanists 1939 deaths 1879 births {{entomologist-stub