François Pollen
François Paul Louis Pollen (born January 8, 1842 in Rotterdam , † May 7, 1886 in The Hague ) was a naturalist and businessman. Despite his French first name, he was Dutch. He made a significant contribution to the study of the Malagasy fauna.
Live and act
Pollen was one of five children of MP Pollen (1806–1857), the owner of the MPPollen & Zoon distillery in Rotterdam . In 1862 he came to Leiden to study medicine. Hermann Schlegel encouraged him to study zoology. From November 1863 to July 1866 he traveled with Douwe Casparus van Dam (1827–1898) to Madagascar, where they collected insects, fish, birds and mammals for the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in Leiden. Thanks to its wealth, Pollen paid for this expedition out of pocket. He later funded the field work of other researchers in Madagascar without being involved on site. He was also active as a collector of animals and plants on the Comoros and on the Mascarene island of Réunion . In 1875, Pollen received an honorary doctorate from the Georg-August University of Göttingen . Together with Hermann Schlegel, pollen described the Madagascar palm bat ( Eidolon dupreanum ) in 1866 . That same year he wrote the first scientific description of the Newton tracked catcher ( Coracina newtoni ) and 1868 he described along with Schlegel Vangawürger genus of Newtonia .
Dedication names
The Comoros pigeon ( Columba pollenii ), the pollen vanga ( Xenopirostris polleni ), the chameleon species Furcifer polleni and the skinkart Madascincus polleni are named after pollen .
Works (selection)
- FPL pollen (1867). Een blik in Madagascar . ( Full text )
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Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses dépendances, d'après les découvertes de François PL Pollen et DC Van Dam (JK Steenhoff (EJ Brill), Leiden). (1868-1877). This work consists of the following parts:
- Part 1. Relation de voyage by François Pollen
- Part 2. Mammifères et oiseaux by Hermann Schlegel and François Pollen
- Part 4. Poissons et pêches by Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878) and François Pollen
- Part 5. Insectes ... by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven (1816–1880) and Edmond de Selys-Longchamps (1813–1900)
- Crustacés et échinodermes by Christiaan Karel Hoffmann (1844–1903)
- Mollusques by Johannes Govertus de Man (1850–1930)
literature
- Laurence J. Dorr: Plant collectors in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands: a biographical and bibliographical guide to individuals and groups who have collected herbarium material of algae, bryophytes, fungi, lichens, and vascular plants in Madagascar and the Comoro Islands , Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew 2000, ISBN 978-1900347181 , p. 356
- Zoological negotiation : Volumes 309–311. Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Netherlands), Netherlands. Ministerie van Cultuur, Recreatie en Maatschappelijk Werk. 1948, p. 280
- AC van Bruggen & FFJM Pieters (1990): Notes on a drawing of Indian elephants in red crayon by Petrus Camper (1786) in the archives of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie In: Zoologische Mededelingen. Volume 63, edition 19. pp. 255–266 ( PDF, online )
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pollen, François |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pollen, François Paul Louis; Pollen, François PL |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1842 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1886 |
| Place of death | The Hague , Netherlands |