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Léonard Puech Dupont (10 January 1796 – 7 February 1828) was a French naturalist, explorer, collector and trader of natural history specimens.
Dupont was born in Bayeux, Normandy to wigmaker Jean-Antoine Puech dit Dupont and Marie-Françoise Badin. An older sibling died at the age of three and his younger brother Richard Henry or Henri (known also as Dupont jeune) also became a naturalist. Their mother was a conchologist with a large collection of shells. The family moved to Paris and Leonard began to collect specimens and was a regular at the
File:Dupont plate 1.jpg, Preparation of specimens
File:Dupont plate 4.jpg, Mounted specimens
Traité de taxidermie, ou L'art de conserver et d'empailler les animaux , par M. Dupont aîné
(1827, second edition) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupont, Leonard Puech 1796 births 1828 deaths 19th-century French naturalists People from Bayeux
Léonard Puech Dupont (10 January 1796 – 7 February 1828) was a French naturalist, explorer, collector and trader of natural history specimens.
Dupont was born in Bayeux, Normandy to wigmaker Jean-Antoine Puech dit Dupont and Marie-Françoise Badin. An older sibling died at the age of three and his younger brother Richard Henry or Henri (known also as Dupont jeune) also became a naturalist. Their mother was a conchologist with a large collection of shells. The family moved to Paris and Leonard began to collect specimens and was a regular at the Jardin des Plantes
The Jardin des Plantes (, ), also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris () when distinguished from other ''jardins des plantes'' in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France. Jardin des Plantes is the official name in the present da ...
, interacting with other naturalists. and working for sometime as a specimen preparator. In 1818 he was hired by Joseph Ritchie
Joseph Ritchie (c. 1788 – 20 November 1819) was an English surgeon, explorer and naturalist. His primary interest lay in the natural sciences, though he is best known for playing a minor role in the British exploration of Africa.
Life
In 1818 ...
for an expedition into Africa along the Niger river. Ritchie and Dupont were also joined by George Francis Lyon (1795–1832) and John Belford. Dupont resigned from the group at Tripoli on 7 February 1819. The group had to disguise themselves as Muslims and Leonard took the name of Mourad but refused to be circumcised and fell afoul of Ritchie. This left Leonard stranded without money and he had to be repatriated by the French consul. Returning to France with a large set of specimens which were sold to naturalists resulted in several new species being described including Dupont's lark ''Chersophilus duponti
Dupont's lark (''Chersophilus duponti'') is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae of the monotypic genus ''Chersophilus''. It is found in northern Africa and Spain.
Taxonomy and systematics
Dupont's lark was originally described by Louis Pi ...
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Dupont published ''Traite ́de taxidermie, ou l’art de conserver et d’empailler les animaux'' (1823) which was reviewed by Vieillot
Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
Vieillot is the author of the first scientific descriptions and Linnaean names of a number of birds, including species he collecte ...
. He died in 1828 and an unlocated grave monument was described by Caplin.
References
External links
Traité de taxidermie, ou L'art de conserver et d'empailler les animaux , par M. Dupont aîné
(1827, second edition) {{DEFAULTSORT:Dupont, Leonard Puech 1796 births 1828 deaths 19th-century French naturalists People from Bayeux