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Pierre Barrere (1690, Perpignan – 1755, Perpignan) was a French physician and naturalist.
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- Lorena torre svalebo s cordino brioudes ecuries pierre barrere
- Pierre barrere coronas
- Ornithology
- Medicine
- Fossils
- His account of Guyana
- References
Pierre Barrere practised in Perpignan from 1717. In 1722, he voyaged to Cayenne where he stayed for five years. Back in Perpignan, he became professor of botany at the University and doctor in the military hospital.
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Ornithology
In 1745 he published his Ornithologiae Specimen Novum, sive Series Avium in Ruscinone, Pyrenaeis Montibus, atque in Gallia Aequinoctiali Observatarum, in Classes, genera & species, nova methodo, digesta at Perpignan. His classification, entirely based on the form of the beak and feet, divided the birds into four groups : les palmipedes, les demi-palmipedes, les fissipedes et les demi-fissipedes. Within these groups there was no rank above genera and species and these were more or less disordered. His very artificial classification was soon abandoned. The work was dedicated to Buffon.
Medicine
He published Observations anatomiques tirees des ouvertures d’un grand nombre de cadavres in 1753 at Perpignan. As anonymous the Dissertation sur la cause physique de la couleur des negres, de la qualite de leurs cheveux, et de la degeneration de l’un et de l’autre, Paris, chez Pierre-Guillaume Simon, 1741.
Fossils
He published in 1746 his Observations sur l'origine et la formation des pierres figurees, et sur celles qui, tant exterieurement qu'interieurement, ont une figure reguliere & determinee at Paris. He was interested in the origin and the nature of fossils and described many from Catalonia and the Pyrenees.He proposed that the fossils of marine Molluscs proved the presence of an ancient ocean.
His account of Guyana
Barrere published two more works, these on his observations in Guyana.These were Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de la France equinoxiale, ou Denombrement des plantes, des animaux et des mineraux qui se trouvent dans l'isle de Cayenne, les isles de Remire, sur les cotes de la mer et dans le continent de la Guyane (1741)and Nouvelle Relation de la France equinoxiale, contenant la description des cotes de la Guiane, de l'ile de Cayenne, le commerce de cette colonie, les divers changements arrives dans ce pays, et les mœurs et coutumes des differents peuples sauvages qui l'habitent ; avec les figures dessinees sur les lieux (1743).