Jean Antoine Dours

Jean Antoine Dours (born March 22, 1824 in Bagnères de Bigorre , † July 23 or 29, 1874 in Amiens ) was a French entomologist who specialized in Hymenoptera .

Life

Jean Antoine Dours was the fourth of five sons of a former army officer. He attended high schools in Pau and Laval . In 1843 he became a surgeon at the military hospital in Lille . In 1845 he moved to Paris , and the following year after passing the entrance exam he became an assistant surgeon in Algeria . After arriving in Algeria, he began to explore the flora. He also observed the insects that were on the plants. In 1848 he had to return to France because he could not stand the Algerian climate. He worked in Perpignan and Rennes , where in 1849 he obtained the diploma of a bachelier ès-sciences physiques . In 1850 he was able to return to Algeria, where he wrote his dissertation in 1851 . Then, during a year-long assignment in remote Pontéba , he resumed his nature studies. Through his brother, who was the principal of the college in Saint-Sever at the time , he came into contact with the naturalist Léon Dufour . A lively exchange about Hymenoptera developed; Dours regularly sent animals to Dufour. In 1853 Dours was appointed assistant major, 2nd class, and transferred to Péronne . In 1854 he was released from military service at his own request and married. In 1857 he moved to Amiens. In 1870 he took part in the Franco-Prussian War as a doctor and was wounded in the Battle of Dury .

Dours was a member of the Entomological Society of France (1852), Botanical Society of France (1854), Entomological Society of Switzerland (1866), Scientific Society of Southwest France (1871) and the Linnaeus Society of Northern France.

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Dours was the first to describe numerous species, including Anthophora squammulosa (1869), Colletes collaris (1872), Nomada tridentirostris (1873) and Halictus gemmens .

Awards

• 1850: Knight of the Order of St. Grégoire le Grand

Fonts

• Essai de topograhie médicale sur Daya, province d'Oran (dissertation)
• Catalog raisonné des hyménoptères du département de la Somme. , Amiens: Mellifères 1861
• Monograph iconographique du genre Anthophora Latreille , Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France, 2, Amiens 1869
• Hyménoptères nouveaux du bassin méditerranéen. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (2) 23, p. 293 -. 312, 349-359, 396-399, 418-434 (1872)
• Catalog synonymique des Hyménoptères de France. Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France (Amiens), 3, 1-230. (1873)

literature

• Joseph Alexandre Laboulbène (1874): Notices nécrologique sur le docteur Antoine Dours , in: Annales de la Société entomologique de France, Volume 43, pp. 351–358
• Lhoste, J. (1987): Les entomologistes français. 1750-1950 . - INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique), Paris: 1-355