Louis François Auguste Souleyet

Louis François Auguste Souleyet (born January 8, 1811 in Besse-sur-Issole , Département Var , † October 7, 1852 in Martinique ) was a French malacologist and ship's doctor.

Life

He was a doctor and naturalist from June 1836 to October 1837 during the circumnavigation of Auguste Nicolas Vaillant (1793-1858) on the ship La Bonité and worked with Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux (1802-1841) on the zoological part of the final report. The botanists Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré and Benôit-Henri Darondeau were also on board the 21-month voyage . In particular, Gaudichaud, who already had experience from an earlier world tour, taught Souleyet on the trip in natural history, in particular about mollusks. It was mainly collected in the Pacific. They drove via Rio Janeiro around Cape Horn to Valparaíso in Chile, then to Peru, Hawaii , where they stayed longer, to the Mariana Islands , the Philippines ( Manila ), Canton , Singapore , India, Réunion and around the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena back to Brest.

After the trip, he was officially engaged in processing the zoological material for several years, some of which he still had to familiarize himself with. The work was interrupted by various business trips by ship from 1846 to 1849. The specimens of mollusks they had collected were cataloged by John Edward Gray of the British Museum in 1855 and reworked them.

He died of yellow fever in Martinique. In 1852 he was called there as a ship's doctor because an epidemic had broken out in the Antilles.

Dedication names

In his honor, the lancet stick tree climber ( Lepidocolaptes souleyetii ) ( Des Murs , 1849) was named. Edgar Albert Smith described a species of snail from the Atlantidae family in 1888 under the name Protatlanta souleyeti . Achille Valenciennes named a fish La Girelle de Souleyet (Julis souleyetii, nob.) In 1839 , a name that is now considered a synonym for the Christmas Junker ( Thalassoma trilobatum ) ( Lacepède , 1801). A species belonging to the rib fern family, Sadleria souleyetiana ( Gaudich. ) T. Moore, also bears his name. Gaudichaud had re-illustrated the species for science under the name Blechum (Sadleria) Souleyetianum .

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  Plate 70 with a lancet-shaped tree climber for the original description

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  Christmas Junkers

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  Sadleria souleyetiana

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  Protatlanta souleyeti

Fonts

• with Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux: Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant Publié par ordre du Roi sou les auspieces du département de la marine . tape 1 : Zoology , Part 1. Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1841 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 8, 2015]).
• with Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux: Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant Publié par ordre du Roi sou les auspieces du département de la marine . tape 1 : Zoology , Part 2. Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1842 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 8, 2015]).
• with Joseph Fortuné Théodore Eydoux: Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite, commandée par M. Vaillant Publié par ordre du Roi sou les auspieces du département de la marine . tape 2 : zoology . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris 1852 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 8, 2015]).
• with Paul Charles Alexandre Léonard Rank des Adrets: Histoire naturelle des mollusques ptéropodes. Monograph comprenant la description de toutes les espèces de ce groupe de mollusques . J.-B. Baillière, Paris 1852 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 8, 2015]).

literature

• TA Appel: Louis-François-Auguste Souleyet. In: Dictionary of Scientific Biography . 1975.
• Sauveur Abel Aubert Petit de la Saussaye: Notice sur Souleyet . In: Journal de conchyliologie . tape 4 , 1853, p. 107–111 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 6, 2015]).
• Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs: Iconographie ornithologique. Nouveau recueil général de planches peintes d'oiseaux, Pour servir de Suite et de Complément aux Planches Enluminées de Buffon, Édition in-folio et in-4 ° de l'Imprimerie royale, 1770 et aux planches coloriées de mm. Temminck et Laugier de Chartrouse, mêmes formats, accompagné d'un texte raisonné, critique et descriptif, publié par O. des Murs; figures dessinées et peintes par Oudard, peintre attaché au Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris . tape 1 . Friedrich Klincksieck, Paris 1849 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 6, 2015]).
• Edgar Albert Smith: Report on the marine Mollusca collected by HMS Challenger during the years 1873-1876 . In: Challenger Reports . tape 23 , no. 72 , 1888, p. 1-51 ( 19thcenturyscience.org [accessed May 7, 2015]).
• Achille Valenciennes in Georges Cuvier: Histoire naturelle des poissons . tape 13 . Petois-Levrault, et Co, Paris 1839 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 6, 2015]).
• Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré: Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette la Bonite commandée par M. Vaillant. tape 3 : Atlas . Arthus-Bertrand, Paris ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 6, 2015] probably between 1845 and 1850).
• Thomas Moore: Index filicum: a synopsis, with characters, of the genera, and an enumeration of the species of ferns, with synonymes, references, & c., & C. tape 1 . W. Pamplin, London 1857 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed May 6, 2015]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Later Rear Admiral and Governor of Martinique
2. ↑ Marc Athanase Parfait Œillet Des Murs, Delivery 12, Plate 70 plus text. Dedication in the text.
3. ^ Edgar Albert Smith, p. 43.
4. ↑ Achille Valenciennes, p. 457.
5. ↑ Julis souleyetii in FishWise Professional ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ^ Thomas Moore, pp. Xxvi.
7. ^ Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré, plate 2, figure 7, 8, plate 134.