Description:Chapters: Edmond de S lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog ne Auguste Galil e Wytsman, Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez, Michel Louette. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Baron Michel Edmond de S lys Longchamps (May 25, 1813 - December 11, 1900) was a Belgian liberal politician and scientist. Selys-Longchamps was regarded as the world's greatest authority on dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe many species from around the world. His collection is housed in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. He was the author of Monographie des Libellulid es d'Europe (1840) and Faune Belge (1842). Selys-Longchamps was a wealthy aristocrat born at Paris. He was educated at home and never at University but became the leading student of Odonata (worldwide) and the Neuropteroid (worldwide) and Orthopteroid (mainly Europe) insects. He was also a leading ornithologist. A liberal representative in the Belgian Parliament he became Councillor for Waremme in 1846 entered the Belgian Senate in 1855 and was finally elected President of the Belgian Senate from 1880 - 1884. His early interest in birds is shown by a book of coloured figures of Belgian species painted when he was 16.Ornithology remained a life-long interest and he assembled an ornithological museum at Waremme maintaining a very large collections of birds, both European and Exotic and including a great auk and an egg. He was also interested in small mammals. At 18 ( 1831) he published his first scientific paper, a list of the insects of Liege and in 1837 a list of the, dragonflies or Odonata and butterflies and moths or Lepidoptera - of Belgium. From that date on...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=210039We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belgian Ornithologists: Edmond de S Lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog Ne Auguste Galil E Wytsman. To get started finding Belgian Ornithologists: Edmond de S Lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog Ne Auguste Galil E Wytsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Belgian Ornithologists: Edmond de S Lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog Ne Auguste Galil E Wytsman
Description: Chapters: Edmond de S lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog ne Auguste Galil e Wytsman, Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez, Michel Louette. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Baron Michel Edmond de S lys Longchamps (May 25, 1813 - December 11, 1900) was a Belgian liberal politician and scientist. Selys-Longchamps was regarded as the world's greatest authority on dragonflies and damselflies. His wealth and influence enabled him to amass one of the finest collections of neuropteroid insects and to describe many species from around the world. His collection is housed in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. He was the author of Monographie des Libellulid es d'Europe (1840) and Faune Belge (1842). Selys-Longchamps was a wealthy aristocrat born at Paris. He was educated at home and never at University but became the leading student of Odonata (worldwide) and the Neuropteroid (worldwide) and Orthopteroid (mainly Europe) insects. He was also a leading ornithologist. A liberal representative in the Belgian Parliament he became Councillor for Waremme in 1846 entered the Belgian Senate in 1855 and was finally elected President of the Belgian Senate from 1880 - 1884. His early interest in birds is shown by a book of coloured figures of Belgian species painted when he was 16.Ornithology remained a life-long interest and he assembled an ornithological museum at Waremme maintaining a very large collections of birds, both European and Exotic and including a great auk and an egg. He was also interested in small mammals. At 18 ( 1831) he published his first scientific paper, a list of the insects of Liege and in 1837 a list of the, dragonflies or Odonata and butterflies and moths or Lepidoptera - of Belgium. From that date on...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=210039We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Belgian Ornithologists: Edmond de S Lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog Ne Auguste Galil E Wytsman. To get started finding Belgian Ornithologists: Edmond de S Lys Longchamps, Jacques Van Impe, Bernard Du Bus de Gisignies, Philog Ne Auguste Galil E Wytsman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.