Arnould Locard
Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (born December 8, 1841 in Lyon , † October 28, 1904 ibid) was a French malacologist , engineer, geologist and historian of science who worked in Lyon.
Life
Locard was the son of the well-known civil engineer Eugène Locard and studied at the École Centrale in Paris, graduating as an engineer in 1866. He became a senior engineer in blast furnaces with Bessemer pear in 1874 , resigned in 1878 and was then civil engineer in Lyon.
He is considered one of the main representatives of a new French school of malacology around Jules René Bourguignat . He described hundreds of new species and genera of freshwater mussels and gastropods (especially the Helix genus of land snails ). He himself did not have a large collection, but worked on the collections in museums (especially the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Lyon) or from other collectors, for example the collection of Jacques Philippe Raymond Draparnaud (1772-1804), that of Gaspard Louis André Michaud (1795–1880) or that of Ange Paulin Terver (1798–1875) from the Lyon area. At the Natural History Museum of Lyon, he worked closely with its director Louis Lortet (1838-1909), wrote catalogs of natural history collections (including minerals and geology) and edited the malacological collection of Lortet from the Middle East.
He published very extensively, also on fossil molluscs (Tertiary around Lyon) and the geology of the Lyon region. He also wrote biographies of naturalists and malacologists, especially from the Lyon area, and a history of malacology in antiquity published in 1884.
He was a member of the Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon (from 1879), the Société française de malacologie, the Société géologique de France and the Société linnéenne de Lyon, of which he became president in 1882. He was also a founding member of the Association lyonnaise des amis des sciences naturelles.
He was the father of forensic scientist Edmond Locard .
Fonts
- with Albert Falsan : Monograph géologique du Mont-d'Or lyonnais et de ses dépendances, Lyon 1866
- Contributions à la Faune malacologique française, 15 parts in the Ann. Soc. linn. Lyon and the Ann. Soc. Hist. nat. Agric. Arts utiles Lyon 1881 to 1890
- with Ange-Paulin Terver: Malacologie Lyonnaise; ou Description des mollusques terrestres & aquatiques des environs de Lyons d'apres la collection Ange-Paulin Terver, donnée au Museum de Lyon, 1877
- Description de la faune de la mollasse marine et d'eau douce du Lyonnais et du Dauphiné, Lyon 1878, Archives
- Catalog des Mollusques terrestres et aquatiques du département de l'Ain, Lyon 1881
- Prodrome de Malacologie française, ou Catalog général des Mollusques vivants de France, Lyon 1882
- Malacologie des lacs de Tibériade, d'Antioche et d'Homs en Syrie, Lyon, 1883
- De la valeur des caractères spécifiques en Malacologie, Lyon 1884
- Études sur les variations malacologiques d'après la Faune vivante et fossile de la partie centrale du bassin du Rhône, 2 volumes, Lyon 1881
- Notices conchyliologiques, 50 parts, L'Echange, Revue linnéenne, Lyon, 1888 to 1898
- Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de la Malacologie française, 7 parts, Bull. Soc. times. Fr. Paris, 1884 to 1887
- Catalog général des mollusques vivants de France: mollusques terrestres, des eaux douces et des eaux saumatres, Paris 1882, archive
- Histoire des mollusques dans l'antiquité, Paris: Baillière 1884, Archives
- La Pêche et les poissons des eaux douce, Pairs: Baillière 1891, Archives
- Les coquilles terrestres de France: description des familles, genres et especes, Paris: Baillière 1894, Archives
- Conchyliologie française. Les coquilles marines au large des côtes de France, faune pélagique et faune abyssale, description des familles, genres et espèces, Paris: Baillière 1899
literature
- Anonymous: Locard, Étienne-Alexandre-Arnould, Revue biographique de la Société Malacologique de France, Volume 1, 1885, pp. 1-19
- L. Germain: Arnould Locard, sa vie, ses travaux. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, Volume 52, 1905, pp. 182-222
Web links
- Information on Arnould Locard in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Locard, Arnould |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Locard, Étienne Alexandre Arnould (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French malacologist, geologist, engineer and historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1841 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1904 |
| Place of death | Lyon |