Philogène Auguste Joseph DUPONCHEL (1774-1846)... - Lot 29 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Philogène Auguste Joseph DUPONCHEL (1774-1846)... - Lot 29 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Philogène Auguste Joseph DUPONCHEL (1774-1846) French entomologist, specialist of lepidoptera. 2 L.A.S. one to the Strasbourg entomologist and printer Gustave Silbermann (1801-1876), the other to the entomologist and librarian Étienne Mulsant (1797-1880). Paris, 25 January 1833 and 17 March 1841. 5 ½ pp. in-4. Dupontel cannot firmly commit himself to writing for an entomological journal as he is in the process of having two works published by the Société d'entomologie, of which they are both members. He mentions the description of a new species of insect. The second letter concerns the research of Duponchel, intended to inform Mulsant, about the oxyomur of Eschscholtz. "I have consulted all the coleopterists in Paris and they all agree that this genus has never been published and that it is a catalog or collection name, like so many others adopted by M. Dejean. About Gymnopleurus asperatus [small black beetle], described by Steven during his travels in the Caucasus and in Northern Russia: the memoirs (7 to 8 volumes) containing the said descriptions, "were scattered among those of the naturalists of the Imperial Academy of Moscow, which [] were burned in the Moscow fire in 1812. Now the chance wants that your Gymnopleurus asperatus is precisely described in one of these burned volumes ". Alexander Grigorievitch Fischer von Waldheim (1803-1884), zoologist and botanist, president of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, "would have had the burnt volumes reprinted since then; but neither the Institute nor the Museum have yet tried to obtain it". Duponchel then evokes the representation of the larva of Dorcus parallelipipedus (also known as "small hind", a black beetle of very large size), in the work of John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), lent by the entomologist Gustave du Bois, baron de Romand (1810-1871).
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