- Alfred Duvaucel
Alfred Duvaucel (1793-1825) was a French naturalist.
Duvaucel was the stepson of
Georges Cuvier . In 1817 Cuvier sent him toIndia withPierre-Médard Diard , to collect for the Paris Museum. They established a botanical garden inChandannagar in 1818. In 1819 they spent some time collecting inSumatra under the contract ofThomas Stamford Raffles . They were dismissed when Raffles discovered that most of the material was not sent to him but to the Museum in Paris. Duvaucel died inMadras .He is commemorated in the names of a number of animals, including the
Barasingha "Cervus duvaucelii",Duvaucels Gecko "Hoplodactylus duvaucelii", theRiver Lapwing "Vanellus duvaucelii" and theScarlet-rumped Trogon "Harpactes duvaucelii".External links
* [http://www.tmbl.gu.se/libdb/taxon/personetymol/petymol.d.html Etymology of marine organism names]
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