Louis Charles Émile Lortet (22 August 1836 – 26 December 1909) was a French

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, botanist,

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and

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who was a native of

Oullins Oullins () is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is a suburb of the city of Lyon, and is adjacent to it on the southwest. Population Transport *Several Buses (C7, C10, 8, 12, 14, 17, 6 ...

. He earned his medical doctorate in 1861, and his degree in natural sciences in 1867. He served as premier

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at the Faculty of Medicine of

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...

from 1877 until 1906. Also, from 1868 to 1909, he was director of the natural history museum in Lyon. Lortet is remembered for his scientific and zoological expeditions to the Middle East ( Syria,

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and

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). He performed studies of

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animals from the

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of ancient Egypt, and in 1880 took part in an excavation of a

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. Lortet was a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the ''Société de géographie de Lyon'', being a founding member in 1858. Species with the epithet of ''lorteti'' are named in his honor; an example being the

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species ''Carinotetraodon lorteti''.

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His Grandmother

Clémence Lortet Clémence Lortet (17 September 1772 – 15 April 1835) (née Richard) was a French botanist and naturalist. In 1823, she became an associate of the Linnean Society of Paris, and with Giovanni Balbis and others, co-founded the Linnean Society of ...

(17 September 1772 – 15 April 1835) was a French botanist and naturalist.

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* ''Faune momifiée de l'ancienne Égypte'' (Mummified fauna of Ancient Egypt) * ''La vérité (Nécropole de Khozan)'' (The truth;

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of Khozan) * ''Recherches sur la vitesse du cours du sang dans les artères du cheval au moyen d’un nouvel hémadromographe'' (Research on the velocity of blood in the arteries of a horse by means of a new hemadromograph) (1867) * ''La Syrie d'aujourd'hui. Voyages dans La Phénicie, Le Liban et La Judée'' (Syria of today. Voyages in

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, Lebanon and

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. 1875–1880 (1881) * ''Note sur le Rhizoprion bariensis de Jourdan'', (Article on ''Rhizoprion bariensis'' of

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) * ''Passage des leucocytes a travers les membranes organiques'' (Passage of

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through the organic membranes) (1867) * ''Recherche sur les mastodontes et les faunas mammalogiques qui les accompagnent'' (Research of

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s and associated megafauna) (1878) * ''Poissons et reptiles du Lac de Tibériade et de quelques autres parties de la Syrie'' (1883) * ''Les reptiles fossiles du bassin du Rhône'' ( Reptilian fossils of the Rhone basin) (1892)

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For the fish known as both '' Luciobarbus lorteti'' and ''

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'' although the patronym is not identified, probably in honor of Lortet.

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