Marie Firmin Bocourt

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Marie Firmin Bocourt (born April 19, 1819 in Paris ; † February 3, 1904 there ) was a French zoologist and artist .

Life

In 1861 Bocourt stayed twice in Siam , where he researched the fauna and brought numerous specimens with him. From 1864 to 1866 he led a scientific expedition to Central America with Auguste Duméril . The excursion took place at the time of the French intervention in Mexico , for which Napoléon III. 1864 a scientific commission, the Commission scientifique du Mexique founded. The expedition began in 1864 in what is now Guatemala , where Bocourt spent most of the expedition. This was followed by explorations in the area of Belize , El Salvador and Costa Rica . The journey home to France took place from Panama .

Boucourt's collection of amphibians and reptiles formed the basis of his mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale . His specimen copies were processed by himself, Auguste Duméril, François Mocquard , Léon Louis Vaillant and Fernand Angel (1881–1950) between 1870 and 1890.

As an artist, he made engravings and portraits of contemporary people as well as zoological illustrations.

Northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) , drawing by Bocourts.
Delalande silk cuckoo (Coua delalandei) , drawing by Bocourt.

Dedication names

Works

  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1868) Descriptions de quelques crotaliens nouveaux appartenant au genre Bothrops, recueillis dans le Guatemala . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool., Ser. 5, vol. 10, pp. 201-202.
  • Auguste Duméril , Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1870) Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale, Études sur les reptiles , livr. 1, pl. 12, 7, 7a-g.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1873a) Caractères d'une espèce nouvelle d'iguaniens le Sceleporus acathhinus . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5) 17 (6): 1.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1873b) Deux notes sur quelques sauriens de l'Amérique tropicale . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. Paleontol. (5) 19 (4): 1-5.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1873c) Note sur quelques espèces nouvelles d'iguaniens du genre Sceleporus . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (5) 17 (10): 1-2.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1873-1897) Études sur les reptiles . Part 3, Sect. 1, Livr. 2-15, pp. 33–860, in Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique Centrale - Recherches Zoologiques. Paris, Imprimerie Imperiale. 1012 pp.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1876a) Note sur quelques reptiles du Mexique . Ann. Sci. Nat., Zool. (6) 3 (12): 1-4.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1876b) Note sur quelques reptiles de l'Isthme de Tehuantepec (Mexique) donnés par M. Sumichrast au Muséum . J. Zool. (Paris) 5: 386-411.
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt: (1879) Etudes sur les reptiles . Miss. Sci. Mexique, Rech. ZooL. Livr. 6: 361-440, pis. 21-22, 22A-22D
  • Marie Firmin Bocourt; Léon Vaillant .: (1883) Études sur les poissons . Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1874–1883

literature

  • Jay Mathers Savage: The amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: a herpetofauna between two continents, and between two seas. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2002, ISBN 0-226-73537-0 , p. 39.

Web links

Commons : Marie-Firmin Bocourt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yves Laissus: Les voyageurs naturalistes du Jardin du roi et du Muséum d'histoire naturelle: essai de portrait-robot. Revue d'histoire des sciences Année (1981) Volume 34 Numéro 34-3-4 pp. 259-317.
  2. ↑ Paul N. Edision: Conquest Unrequited: French Expeditionary Science in Mexico from 1864 to 1867 . In: French Historical Studies . Volume 26, Number 3, Summer 2003, pp. 459-495.
  3. ↑ Jay Mathers Savage: The amphibians and reptiles of Costa Rica: a herpetofauna between two continents, and between two seas. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2002, ISBN 0-226-73537-0 , p. 39.
  4. ^ Tantilla bocourti in The Reptile Database
  5. ↑ Phoboscincus bocourti in Reptile Database
  6. ↑ USGS: Callinectes bocourti ( Memento of November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Bocourt, Marie Firmin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French zoologist and artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1904
Place of death Paris