- Guillaume Grandidier
Guillaume Grandidier (
1873 –1957 ) was a Frenchgeographer ,ethnologist ,zoologist who studied the island ofMadagascar .He was the son of the wealthy industrialist
Alfred Grandidier also a zoologist and expert on Madagascar. Guillaume Grandidier was Secretary of the Geographical Society of Paris and a prolific author.He wrote "Atlas des Colonies Françaises, Protectorats et Territoires sous Mandat de la France". Société D´Éditions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. Paris. (1934) , with
Petit, G. "Zoologie de Madagascar". Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, Paris 2 ((1932) and edited with his father "Collection des Ouvrages Anciens Concernant Madagascar" 9 vols. Paris: Comité de Madagascar (1903–1920) and many other works on Madagascar. The best known is the monumental "Madagascar L'Histoire politique, physique et naturelle de Madagascar". This work was undertaken in cooperation with his father and others such asAlphonse Milne-Edwards andLeon Vaillant . This work ran to 40 volumesReferences
* Helgen K.M., 2002 Guillaume Grandidier's mammal collections from Madagascar "Mammalian Biology" 67, (6) , 378-380.
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