- Jean Antoine Dours
Jean Antoine Dours (22 March 1824 ,
Bagnères de Bigorre -29 July 1874Amiens ) was a Frenchentomologist specialising inHymenoptera .Works
*Monographie iconographique du genre Anthophora, Lat.,"Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France" , 2 (Annes 1868 & 1869)1870 (sic).
*Hymenopteres nouveaux du bassin. mediterraneen. "Rev. Mag. Zool". (2)23, p. 293 -. 312, 349 - 359, 396 - 399, 418 - 434 (1872).
* Catalogue synonymique des Hyménoptères de France. "Mémoires de la Societé Linnéene de Nord de la France" (Amiens), 3, 1-230.(1873) See http://www.archive.org/details/ants_14701 for pages onants Collection
Excepting the material he acquired from
Joseph-Étienne Giraud which was returned to that entomologist, Dours collection was burned in a fire in the U.S.A.References
Lhoste, J. 1987: Les entomologistes français. 1750 - 1950. - INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) , Paris : 1-355
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