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Pierre-André Latreille
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Born November 29, 1762 • Brive-la-Gaillarde • France
Died February 6, 1833 (aged 70) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des crustacés et insectes” • “Précis des caractères génériques des insectes disposés dans un ordre naturel”
Subjects Of Study crustacean • insect • taxonomy

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Mary Jane Rathbun
American marine zoologist
Johann Christian Fabricius, engraving by G.L. Lahde, 1805
Johann Christian Fabricius
Danish entomologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
French naturalist
Réaumur, detail of an engraving by J. Blanchon
René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur
French entomologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Willi Hennig
German zoologist
Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz
Swiss scientist
Leland Ossian Howard
American entomologist
William Morton Wheeler
American entomologist
Charles Valentine Riley
American entomologist
William Brooks
William Keith Brooks
American zoologist
Say, Thomas
Thomas Say
American naturalist
Charles Atwood Kofoid
American zoologist
John Henry Comstock
American entomologist
Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist
Elliott Coues
American ornithologist
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist

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