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Jules Favre (naturalist)

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Name
  
Jules Favre

Role
  
Naturalist


Died
  
January 22, 1959

Fields
  
Zoology, Botany, Geology

Jules Favre (6 November 1882, Le Locle – 22 January 1959, Geneva) was a Swiss zoologist, mycologist and geologist. He was the curator of the Natural History Museum of Geneva from 1915 to 1952.

He studied natural sciences at the Neuchâtel Academy, and in 1907, started work as an assistant at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Geneva, where he eventually became a curator of geology and paleontology. In 1952 he received an honorary degree from the University of Neuchâtel.

During his career, he was a reciprient of the Prix Desmazières of the Académie des sciences of Paris and the Prix de la Ville de Genève. In 1927 he became a member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (Linnean Society of Lyon).

His type material is stored in the collections at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Geneva, and some material is kept in the Melvill-Tomlin collection at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.

Published works

Partial list:

  • 1911. Description geologique des environs du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds.
  • 1913. Étienne Joukowsky, J. Favre. Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève (Haute Savoie).
  • 1914. Carte du Salève (Haute-Savoie), 1/25.000. Dressée d'après des levés photogrammétriques et barométriques et des croquis pris sur place avec E. Joukowsky.
  • 1927. Les mollusques post-glaciaires et actuels du bassin de Genève.
  • 1935. Histoire malacologique du lac de Genève. In: Mémoires de la Société physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Genève.
  • 1941. Les Pisidium du canton de Neuchatel. In: Bulletin de la société neuchateloise des sciences, T. 66.
  • 1945. Études mycologiques faites au Parc national suisse.
  • 1955. Les champignons supérieurs de la zone alpine du Parc national suisse. Ed. Nationalpark-Museum.
  • 1960. Catalogue descriptif des champignons supérieurs de la zone subalpine du Parc national suisse.

    • Books about Jules Favre:

  • 1959. "L'œuvre mycologique de Jules Favre", Lons-le-Saunier : M. Declume, 1959. by Henri Romagnesi. and in: Bulletin de la Société mycologique de France 75, 1959, 418-426.

    • References

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