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La Société zoologique de France (), founded in 1876 by Aimé Bouvier, is a
scientific society A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to a ...
devoted to
Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, 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 Zoology, zoologist and malacologist. He studied medicine in Paris where he then practised. His thesis was ''Des Végétaux parasites de l'Homme''. He par ...
* 1879:
Edmond Perrier Jean Octave Edmond Perrier (9 May 1844 – 31 July 1921) was a French zoologist born in Tulle. He is known for his studies of invertebrates (annelids and echinoderms). He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861–1936). Career On advice ...
* 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 Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
* 1883: Jules Künckel d'Herculais * 1884: Maurice Chaper * 1885:
Jean Pierre Mégnin Jean Pierre Mégnin (16 January 1828 – 31 December 1905) was a French army veterinarian and entomologist. He is best known for his work with dogs in the field of cynology. He also contributed to the field of forensic entomology. He led expe ...
* 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 d ...
* 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 autodidacticism, ...
* 1893:
Émile Oustalet Jean-Frédéric Émile Oustalet (24 August 1844 – 23 October 1905) was a French zoologist who contributed greatly to ornithology. Oustalet was born at Montbéliard, in the department of Doubs (department), Doubs. He studied at the Ecole des Hau ...
* 1894: Lionel Faurot * 1895:
Léon Vaillant Léon Louis Vaillant (; 11 November 1834 – 24 November 1914) was a French zoology, zoologist. He is most famous for his work in the areas of herpetology, malacology, and ichthyology. In 1854 he graduated from the Arras College, College d'Ar ...
* 1896: Louis Eugène Bouvier * 1897: Romain Moniez * 1898:
Henri Filhol Henri Filhol Henri Filhol (13 May 1843 – 28 April 1902) was a French medical doctor, malacologist and naturalist born in Toulouse. He was the son of Édouard Filhol (1814-1883), curator of the Muséum de Toulouse. After receiving his early e ...
* 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 left-step periodic table of chemical elements. Life and work Janet graduated from the École Centrale Par ...
* 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 pre ...
* 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 ''préparateu ...
* 1902:
Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay Arthur René Jean Baptiste Bavay (29 April 1840 in Lamballe – 1923) was a French pharmacist, herpetologist and malacologist. Biography Trained as a naval pharmacist, Bavay's scientific contributions included investigations involving the ...
* 1903: Jules Richard * 1904:
Edgard Hérouard Edgard Joseph Émile Hérouard (18 March 1858 in Saint-Quentin, Aisne - 22 March 1932 in Paris) was a French marine biologist. In 1889 he started work as a préparateur at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, earning his doctorate in natural scien ...
* 1905:
Louis Joubin Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (27 February 1861 in Épinal – 24 April 1935 in Paris) was a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. He published works on nemerteans, chaetognatha, cephalopods, and other m ...
* 1906: François-Xavier Raspail * 1907: Georges Pruvot * 1908:
Paul Marchal Paul Alfred Daniel Marchal (27 September 1862, Paris, – 2 March 1942, Paris) was a French entomologist. He was president of the French Entomological Society (''Société entomologique de France'') in 1907. He was president of the French Zoo ...
* 1909: Charles Alluaud * 1910: François-Henri Coutière * 1911:
Jean Baptiste François René Koehler Jean Baptiste François René Koehler (7 March 1860, Saint-Dié – 19 April 1931, Lyon) was a French zoologist best known for his research of echinoderms. He studied medicine and zoology in Nancy, France, Nancy. In 1889 he became a member o ...
* 1912:
Adrien Dollfus Adrien Frédéric Jules Dollfus (21 March 1858, in Mulhouse-Dornach – 19 November 1921, in Paris) was a French carcinologist known for his work with terrestrial isopods, including crustaceans and trilobites. Life and career Adrien Dollfus was t ...
* 1913:
Louis Roule Louis Roule (; 20 December 1861 – 30 July 1942) was a French zoologist born in Marseille. In 1881 he obtained a degree in natural sciences at Marseille, followed by his doctorate of sciences (1884) at Paris with a thesis on ascidians of coasta ...
* 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 – 12 August 1944) was a French zoology, zoologist. Biography Pellegrin was born in Paris on 12 June 1873. He worked under zoologist Léon Vaillant (chair of reptiles and fishes) at the ''Muséum national d'hi ...
* 1918:
Édouard Chevreux Édouard Chevreux (10 November 1846, in Paris – 10 January 1931, in Bône) was a French carcinologist. Chevreux specialised in the study of Amphipoda, an order of malacostracan crustaceans. With Louis Fage (1883–1964), he was co-author of th ...
* 1919: Armand Lucien Clément * 1920:
Émile Topsent Émile-Eugène-Aldric Topsent (10 February 1862 – 22 September 1951) was a French zoologist known for his research of sponges. He was born in Le Havre. During his career he worked in several laboratories and institutes in western France. Fro ...
* 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 Charles Pérez (19 May 1873 in Bordeaux – 22 September 1952 in Paris) was a French zoologist best known for his research of marine invertebrates and insects. His father, Jean Pérez (1833-1914), was a zoology professor at Bordeaux, and his fa ...
* 1925:
Louis Boutan Louis Marie-Auguste Boutan (6 March 1859 – 6 April 1934) was a French biologist and photographer. He was a pioneer in the field of underwater photography. Biography The son of , he was born in Versailles and studied biology and natural h ...
* 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 Norm ...
* 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 was born in Romont, Switzerland. His initial interest was ...
* 1929:
Louis Fage Louis Fage (30 September 1883, in Limoges – 1964, in Dijon), also known as Jean-Louis Fage and Baptiste Louis Fage, was a French marine biologist and arachnologist. A native of Limoges, he studied biology at the University of Paris, Sorbonne ...
* 1930: Alphonse Malaquin * 1931:
Lucien Chopard Lucien Chopard (Paris, 31 August 1885 – 16 November 1971) was a French entomologist. He graduated as a Doctor of Science in 1920 at the Faculté des sciences de Paris with a thesis entitled ''Recherches sur la conformation et le développement ...
* 1932: François Picard * 1933: Armand Billard * 1934: Léonce Joleaud * 1935: René Legendre * 1936: Louis Mercier * 1937:
Marie Phisalix Marie Félicie Phisalix (née Picot) (20 November 1861 — 18 January 1946) was a French scientist who researched snake venom and antidotes. She was awarded the Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1923. Early life and education Phisalix was pa ...
* 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 who rejected Neo- ...
* 1940: Robert-Philippe Dolfus * 1941: Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet * 1942: Édouard Bourdelle * 1943:
Jacques Millot Jacques Millot (9 July 1897, Beauvais – 23 January 1980, Paris) was a French arachnologist, who also made significant contributions in the fields of ichthyology and ethnology. Biography He studied histology under Justin Marie Jolly at the ...
* 1944: Marcel Prenant * 1945: Georges Lavier * 1946:
Henri Piéron Louis Charles Henri Piéron (; 18 July 1881 – 6 November 1964) was a French psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavio ...
* 1947: Édouard Fischer-Piette * 1948:
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* 1949:
Léon Bertin Léon Bertin (8 April 1896, Paris â€“ 5 February 1956, Saint-Amand-de-Vendôme) was a French zoologist. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and died in the Loir-et-Cher Department of France, in a car accident. Biography ...
* 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 d ...
* 1953: Georges Teissier * 1954: Raymond Hovasse * 1955: Paul Vayssière * 1956: Germaine Cousin * 1957: Paul Remy * 1958:
Étienne Wolff Étienne Wolff (Auxerre, 12 February 1904 – Paris, 18 November 1996) was a French biologist, specialising in experimental and teratological embryology. He led the Société zoologique de France from 1958 and was elected to the French Academy ...
* 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 Biological Sciences of the University of Paris. In 1947 he joined the staff of the Muséum ...
* 1965: Georges Busnel * 1966: François Rollier * 1967: Alain Chabaud * 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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