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Felix Edouard Guerin-Meneville

Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville, also known as F. E. Guerin, (12 October 1799 Toulon – 26 January 1874 Paris) was a French entomologist.

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Life and work

Guérin-Méneville changed his surname from Guérin in 1836. He was the author of the illustrated work Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier 1829–1844, a complement to the work of the zoologists Georges Cuvier and Pierre André Latreille, Le Règne Animal, which illustrated only a selection of the animals covered. Cuvier was delighted with the work, saying that it would be very useful to readers, and that the illustrations were "as accurate as they were elegant".

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He also introduced silkworms to France, so they could be bred for the production of silk.

Guérin-Méneville founded several journals: Magasin de zoologie, d’anatomie comparée et de paléontologie (1830), Revue zoologique par la Société cuviérienne (1838), Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquée (1849), and Revue de sériciculture (1863). He was editor of Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle, published in Paris 1836–1839. Guérin-Méneville was elected president of the Société Entomologique de France for the year 1846.

Works

  • Guérin-Méneville, Felix-Edouard. Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier: ou, représentation d'aprés nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'amimaux. Avec un texte descriptif mis au courant de la science. Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1829-1844.
  • Guérin-Méneville, Felix-Edouard (editor). Dictionnaire Pittoresque d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 1836-1839.
  • References

    Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville Wikipedia


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