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JEAN VICTOR AUDOUIN (1797-1841)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 898 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JEAN See also:VICTOR See also:AUDOUIN (1797-1841)  , See also:French naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Paris on the 27th of See also:April 1797 . He began the study of See also:law, but was diverted from it by his strong predilection for natural See also:history, and entered the medical profession . In 1824 he was appointed assistant to P . A . See also:Latreille (1762–1833) in the entomological See also:chair at the Paris museum of natural history, and succeeded him in 1833 . In 1838 he became a member of' the See also:Academy of Sciences . He died in Paris on the 9th of See also:November 1841 . His See also:principal See also:work, Histoire See also:des insectes nuisibles d la See also:vigne (1842), was completed after his See also:death by See also:Henry Milne-See also:Edwards and (mile See also:Blanchard . His papers mostly appeared in the Annales des sciences naturelles, which, with A . T . See also:Brongniart and J . B .

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Dumas, he founded in 1824, and in the proceedings of the Societe Entomologique de See also:France, of which he was one of the founders in 1832 .

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