François Louis Henri Coutière (4 March 1869 in

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– 23 August 1952 in Orvilliers) was a French

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, who specialized in the field of

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(

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). In 1895 he received his bachelor's degree in natural sciences, and during the following year, obtained his pharmacy degree 1st class. By way of a recommendation from

Alphonse Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Paris, 13 October 1835 – Paris, 21 April 1900) was a French mammalogist, ornithologist, and carcinologist. He was English in origin, the son of Henri Milne-Edwards and grandson of Bryan Edwards, a Jamaican planter who ...

, he embarked on a zoological mission to the

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in 1897 on behalf of the

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. In 1899 he was named ''chef de service'' under Milne-Edwards in the laboratory of anatomic zoology at the

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.François Louis Henri Coutière
Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie In 1899 he obtained his doctorate in natural sciences with a dissertation-thesis on the

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family

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, and during the following year began teaching classes in zoology at the École supérieure de Pharmacie in

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. From 1902 to 1937 he was a full professor of zoology at the school of pharmacy. In 1910 he was appointed president of the

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. The shrimp genera ''Coutierea'' and ''Coutierella'' (family

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) commemorate his name, as do species with the epithet ''coutierei''; e.g. ''Stenothoe coutieri'' ( Chevreux, 1908).

Selected works

* ''Les "Alpheidae," morphologie externe et interne, formes larvaires, bionomie'', 1899 – On Alpheidae, external and internal morphology, larval forms,

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. * ''Poissons vénimeux et poissons vénéneux. Venins, toxalbumines du sérum et des organes, toxines microbiennes d'infection et de putréfaction'', 1899 –

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and fish poisons. * ''Crustacés schizopodes et décapodes'', 1918 – Schizopods and

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. * ''Le monde vivant'' (5 volumes 1927–30; preface by

Léon Guignard Jean Louis Léon Guignard (13 April 1852 in Mont-sous-Vaudrey – 7 March 1928 in Paris) was a French pharmacist and botanist. In 1882 he received his doctorate of sciences in Paris, and afterwards served as a professor of botany at the Facu ...

) – The living world. * ''Connais-toi ou la physiologie sans pleurs'', 1936. * ''Connais tes ennemis. Les ennemis extèrieurs'', 1938. * ''Connais tes ennemis. Les ennemis intérieurs'', 1939. * ''Connais tes outils. Diastases, vitamines, hormones'' 1943.IDREF.fr
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